delinea - Staff Software Engineer: Agent Identity and Authorization

Remote - U.S. Remote1w ago

Remote Staff NA Software Engineer Staff Engineer Governance Salesforce

Requirements

• Typically 10 or more years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in identity, authorization, or distributed systems security. • Hands-on experience building authorization or policy systems such as Cedar, OPA, OpenFGA, or a comparable engine. • Working knowledge of identity and token standards such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, SPIFFE and SPIRE, or workload identity federation. • A track record of designing systems and interfaces that other teams build on at scale. • Ability to lead technical decisions that span multiple teams and communicate them clearly to varied audiences. • WE'D LOVE TO SEE: • Experience securing AI or agentic systems. • Contributions to identity, authorization, or security standards or open source. • Background in privileged access, secrets management, or identity governance. • For this Job, Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J1, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design the identity model for AI agents, including delegated (on-behalf-of) actions, composite identities, and how agent activity is attributed for audit. • Build the authorization engine that decides in real time what an agent is allowed to do, and help select the underlying policy technology such as Cedar, OPA, or AuthZEN. • Define how we establish trust in identities issued by outside platforms such as Microsoft Entra and Salesforce, and by emerging standards like OpenID Connect for agents. • Build authorization and continuous-evaluation capabilities that draw on the live session and decision signals our identity products already produce. • Own the interfaces and contracts the rest of the platform builds against, and keep them clean as the platform grows. • Act as a technical leader across teams, setting direction and raising the bar on identity and authorization.

Benefits

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities. • We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative. • What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression. • At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success: • Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do • Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments • Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team • Ownership - We take initiative and follow through • Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment • Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes • We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie. • We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.