Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management

Lambda

Engineering Manager leading Identity & Access Management team at Lambda's AI cloud infrastructure. Overseeing technical strategy, building secure identity capabilities, and fostering team growth and culture.

Posted 7/29/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $297,000 - $440,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and leading IAM engineering teams while developing secure, scalable identity capabilities and evolving authorization platforms. Proficient in translating enterprise requirements into durable platform capabilities and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.

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IAM Engineering LeadershipLarge-Scale Distributed SystemsCloud Infrastructure ExpertiseCross-Functional Initiative ManagementTechnical Communication

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringIdentity and Access ManagementAuthenticationAuthorizationWorkload IdentityPolicy EnforcementRBACKey Management ServiceDistributed SystemsHigh Availability

Soft Skills

Team DevelopmentStrategic ThinkingProblem SolvingStakeholder CommunicationOperational Discipline

Certifications & Qualifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science

Industry Keywords

IAM PlatformSecurityReliabilityObservabilityIncident ResponseDisaster RecoveryIntegration StandardsCustomer-Managed KeysHSM-Backed ProtectionAuditability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, lead, and grow the IAM engineering team. Hire exceptional engineers, develop technical leaders, and create a culture of ownership and high engineering standards.
Work closely with the IAM technical leaders to define and deliver the long-term technical and architectural strategy for Lambda’s IAM platform.
Build secure, scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads from federation and SSO to service and workload identity.
Evolve the authorization platform – RBAC, policy evaluation, and resource hierarchy with least privilege and auditability as defaults.
Make IAM easy to adopt across every Lambda service through consistent APIs, resource and action models, and integration standards.
Build and own Lambda’s Key Management Service, including customer-managed keys, HSM-backed protection, key lifecycle controls, and integration across compute, storage, and networking.
Own the reliability, security, performance, and operations of mission-critical IAM services including observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and disaster recovery.
Translate enterprise requirements into durable platform capabilities, and communicate strategy, delivery, risk, and operational health clearly to senior leadership.
Balance the complexity and flexibility required for enterprise-grade IAM with simple, intuitive experiences for customers with varying levels of identity and access expertise.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
Have built and operated large-scale distributed systems with high availability, security, and reliability requirements.
Bring strong technical judgment across cloud infrastructure and IAM — authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
Can engage deeply in architecture, pressure-test designs, and guide tradeoffs across security, correctness, scale, performance, and operability.
Have a strong track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineers and technical leaders through periods of growth and change.
Have driven cross-functional platform or security initiatives and influenced teams and leaders without direct authority.
Can turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear strategy, pragmatic execution, and broadly adopted platform capabilities.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and set a high bar for engineering quality, operational discipline, and ownership.
Hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or have equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
Generous cash & equity compensation