Senior Staff Backend Engineer - IAM
BengaluruFull-timeHybrid13–17 yrsPosted 3 months ago
Leadership software engineering role at Coupang Internal in Bengaluru. Needs 13–17 years. Hybrid.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to lead backend engineering efforts specifically focused on identity and access management (IAM) for our next-generation AI cloud platform. As part of this multi-year initiative, the Identity team is responsible for managing user and machine identities, authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication across the platform.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a high-performing backend engineering team focused on identity and access management
- Drive development of core IAM capabilities including authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle management
- Design and build scalable systems for user identity and machine identity management within a cloud environment
- Work on modern authentication protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, and implement secure service-to-service authentication
- Build and evolve authorization frameworks leveraging RBAC/ABAC models and policy engines (e.g., OPA)
What you need
- IAM
- REST APIs
- Java
- Python
Good to have
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- Azure