Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

Brex

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$192,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $178k
This role $216k
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This role pays more than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$206,450 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $178k for comparable roles.

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About Brex

Brex is a financial technology company providing corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and expense management software designed specifically for startups and growing technology companies. Industry: Financial Technology & Corporate Banking

Brex currently has 85 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $240,000–$285,000 across 81 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

As a Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management, you will join the Identity and Access Management team to build and maintain secure authentication and authorization systems. You will lead projects from technical design through implementation to improve security, reliability, and developer experience for customers, partners, and internal systems. Your daily work involves designing backend systems and APIs for identity context, audit-related workflows, and login experiences including SSO, MFA, and delegated access. You will build authorization systems supporting custom roles and resource-aware controls while ensuring secure-by-default integrations. The role requires expertise in core IAM concepts like OAuth, SAML, OIDC, and RBAC, alongside experience with tools such as Okta and Oso. You will solve complex problems regarding signed identity propagation, fine-grained authorization, and durable audit trails to protect assets and provide seamless access for all users.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, and audit workflows.
  • Lead engineering initiatives from technical design and implementation through rollout and operational support.
  • Improve login experiences across SSO, MFA, step-up authentication, and enterprise identity flows.
  • Build and extend authorization systems supporting custom roles and resource-aware access control.
  • Create durable, identity-aware audit trails for user, service, and agent-driven actions.
  • Develop secure-by-default IAM integrations through shared libraries and clear patterns for other teams.
  • Mentor team members to improve code quality and system reliability.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and deploying applications.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable production backend systems.
  • Experience leading complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
  • Strong API design fundamentals, rigor around testing, code quality, and documentation.
  • Understanding of core IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, sessions, tokens, MFA, SSO, OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or RBAC.
  • Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional technical discussions.
  • Demonstrated commitment to operational excellence, system reliability, and reducing toil.
  • Experience with identity/access management systems, Okta, Oso, or enterprise-facing admin controls (preferred).

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