Brex
Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
$240K–$300K
San Francisco, California, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
New York, New York, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About the job
Lead the design and operation of identity and access management systems, improving security, reliability, and developer experience across authentication, authorization, and audit capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit workflows.
- Lead cross-organization projects from technical design through rollout and operational support; mentor engineers and improve reliability.
- Improve login, delegated access, authorization, and audit capabilities, and make IAM integrations easier for product teams to adopt.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable production backend systems.
- Experience leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.
- Strong API design, testing, code quality, and documentation practices.
- Understanding of IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or RBAC.
Nice to have
- Production experience with IAM, authentication, authorization, or audit systems.
- Hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, or WebAuthn.
Pay
$240,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Okta, Oso, SSO, MFA, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, WebAuthn
AI focus
Evolve identity capabilities for delegated and agent identity and provide audit attribution for agent-driven actions.
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