eBay
Software Architect - Cloud Security
$157K–$255K
Austin · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years building large-scale distributed systems, including 5+ years as a technical lead or architect owning end-to-end identity or access management designs.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Cannot offer any sort of visa sponsorship; remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.
About the job
Leads enterprise IAM architecture and guides teams in building secure, scalable identity services across eBay’s hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.
What you'll do
- Define IAM architecture, standards, and reference implementations across platforms.
- Design and drive adoption of authentication, federation, authorization, and identity lifecycle solutions.
- Influence technical direction, review designs and code, and mentor engineers across teams.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in IAM technologies and standards, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and SCIM.
- Experience designing secure authentication, authorization, and federation solutions in distributed cloud or SaaS environments.
- Ability to influence technical strategy, establish engineering standards, and lead across teams.
- Familiarity with Zero Trust, adaptive access models such as RBAC and ABAC, and identity verification or risk-based authentication.
Nice to have
- Experience in security-sensitive or regulated environments.
Pay
$156,800 - $255,300 USD base salary
Tools
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, FIDO2, WebAuthn, Passkeys, JWT, mTLS
AI focus
The role helps drive secure innovation in an AI-first environment; AI work is not otherwise specified.
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