CareerPlan

Software Engineering Manager-Continuous Identity

USA - Sunnyvale, CAFull-time2026-10-19 → 2026-11-09
Hybrid

Core

Lead the SGNL backend engineering team to build real-time identity security systems that discover, protect, and verify human, non-human, and AI identities across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (player-coach)

Builds

High-throughput pipelines for continuous identity evaluation, enforcement, and threat detection/response (ITDR)

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Identity Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Backend cloud engineering leadership, Hands-on coding (Go, Python, Java), Cloud-native microservices architecture, Distributed systems design, REST/gRPC, Kubernetes, Event streaming (Kafka), Cloud operations (AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure), People leadership, Agile/Scrum

Preferred skills

Cybersecurity/Zero Trust/ITDR/PAM, Shared Signals Framework (CAEP/RISC), Non-human/machine identities, Graph databases (Neo4j), Stream processing (Flink), ML-based behavioral analytics

Technologies

Go, Python, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, Neo4j, Flink

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and hire a high-performing backend engineering team; Architect scalable, low-latency continuous identity evaluation and enforcement systems; Drive day-to-day technical execution and architectural decisions; Establish engineering best practices and manage service reliability/SLOs; Partner with product management and peer engineering teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership