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Platform Engineer - Identity Infrastructure

Washington, D.C.💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and operate secure-by-design identity infrastructure and tooling for agents, workloads, and humans to enable secure access governance and management at scale.

Role type

Senior IC Platform Engineer (Identity Infrastructure)

Builds

Next-generation identity platform components including access graphs, policy engines, and token-issuance layers for corporate and customer-facing infrastructure.

Domain

Cybersecurity / Identity & Access Management (IAM) / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthn), container orchestration (EKS, ECS), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm), policy engines and authorization-as-code, token issuance and federation, non-human identity management (mTLS, workload attestation), threat modeling, compliance service design.

Preferred skills

Go, Python, TypeScript, agentic identity flows, device-bound session credentials, continuous access evaluation.

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Entra ID, Keycloak, AWS Cognito, Okta, EKS, ECS, Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

Develop automation and tooling for corporate and customer-facing identity platforms; Build, secure, and manage geo-redundant containerized services in AWS and Azure; Scale SSO integrations across multiple Entra ID tenants; Build tooling to standardize operational workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP; Extend the identity platform to non-human identities (workloads and AI agents); Build the governance layer (access graph and policy engine); Design token-issuance and federation flows for least-privilege access; Research and drive adoption of emerging authentication standards; Pressure-test designs and partner with Security Engineers to threat model implementations; Partner with Security Compliance Engineers to build services that reduce compliance complexity.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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