Brex
Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
$240K–$300K
Seattle, Washington, United States +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
About the job
Leads the design and operation of identity, authentication, authorization, and audit systems, improving security, reliability, and developer experience across Brex.
What you'll do
- Design and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit workflows.
- Lead cross-organizational initiatives from technical design through rollout and operational support; mentor engineers and improve system reliability.
- Improve SSO, MFA, delegated access, enterprise identity flows, authorization controls, and identity-aware audit trails.
What they ask for
- Experience building reliable production backend systems and leading complex projects while mentoring engineers.
- Strong API design, testing, code quality, and documentation skills.
- Understanding of IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or RBAC.
- Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, and judgment balancing security, usability, and developer experience.
Nice to have
- Production experience with IAM, authentication, authorization, or audit systems; hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, or WebAuthn.
- Experience with enterprise admin controls, authorization platforms, delegated access, audit trails, or shared platform infrastructure.
Pay
$240,000 - $300,000 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Okta, Oso, SSO, MFA, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, WebAuthn
AI focus
The role involves evolving identity platforms to support agent identity and identity-aware attribution for agent-driven actions.
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