155K–195K USD / year
Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer
OtherWorkplace — United States
Published on 2026-11-06
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About this role
Design, implement, and operate identity and access capabilities for people, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. The role emphasizes least privilege, strong authentication, automated identity lifecycle management, and short-lived credentials across distributed systems.
About the company
Backblaze provides cloud object storage and backup services for individuals and businesses. It serves teams that need affordable, durable storage and simple data protection.
Stack
OIDCOAuthSPIFFE/SPIREPKIInfrastructure-as-Code
What you'll do
- Design and operate authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, PAM, and privileged-access capabilities
- Create roles, groups, and entitlements that enforce least privilege and separation of duties
- Automate provisioning, access reviews, privilege changes, and deprovisioning
- Govern service, machine, workload, device, API, and AI-agent identities
- Use federation, certificates, and short-lived credentials to reduce persistent secrets
- Monitor identity posture and work with Security Operations to investigate threats and revoke compromised access
What we're looking for
- Hands-on experience engineering enterprise IAM systems and integrations
- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, role design, separation of duties, and least privilege
- Knowledge of phishing-resistant MFA, cryptographic authentication, identity proofing, and identity assurance
- Experience managing human and non-human identities
- Experience automating identity processes with APIs, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code
- Understanding of PKI, secrets management, short-lived credentials, and workload identity federation
- Ability to reason about identity and authorization in distributed systems and collaborate on secure access design
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage for family, including dental and vision
- 401(k) and RSU grants for full-time employees
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Flexible vacation policy
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Work MacBook Pro and workstation stipend
- Childcare bonus
- Fertility treatment and support