Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Delinea secures human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization and an AI-powered Identity Security Platform. The Senior Software Development Engineer will design and build foundational identity and authorization capabilities for AI agents, including identity models, real-time authorization, trust establishment, and platform interfaces. The role also provides technical leadership across teams and reports to the Director of Engineering, Securing AI.
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
Skills
- Typically 7 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
- 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
Benefits
- A meaningful bonus program
- Healthcare insurance
- Pension/retirement matching
- Comprehensive life insurance
- An employee assistance program
- Time off plans
- Paid company holidays
- Great career progression
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