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Principal Identity Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $197,000–$232,000🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the design and evolution of enterprise identity security capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant access for employees, contractors, applications, cloud platforms, and non-human identities.

Role type

Principal Identity Security Engineer

Builds

Enterprise identity security ecosystem, privileged access management solutions, non-human identity programs, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Domain

Financial Services / Identity Security & Governance

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Identity lifecycle management, Identity governance and administration, Authentication and authorization, Privileged access management, Non-human identity management, Infrastructure-as-Code, AI-assisted development, Regulatory compliance (SOX, FFIEC, PCI DSS, NIST), Technical architecture design, Cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Non-human identity program design, AI agent identity controls, Cloud workload identity patterns, Vendor selection and proof-of-concept leadership

Technologies

SailPoint, Okta, Active Directory, AWS, Terraform, GitHub, Delinea (Thycotic) Secret Server

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and engineering standards for identity security; Design and deliver scalable identity solutions; Own privileged access management operations; Build automation and AI-assisted workflows; Define non-human identity capabilities; Lead complex identity initiatives with Security, Risk, and Audit; Evaluate emerging identity security capabilities and AI adoption; Mentor engineers and drive organizational change

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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