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Engineering Manager - Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Databricks· Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$190k - $261.3kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead the IAM team, defining strategy for authentication, authorization, and identity services at cloud scale; responsible for reliable, secure, and high-performance IAM components and aligning with product and security goals.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the strategy for IAM systems, including authentication and access control.
  • Build and scale a high-performing engineering team focused on authentication, authorization, and identity management at cloud scale.
  • Provide technical oversight on architecture and design for IAM components that can operate at massive scale, with high requirements for reliability, security, and performance.
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders across Databricks to embed secure, scalable identity solutions into every aspect of our product.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with industry best practices for IAM, helping customers meet their own governance, privacy, and security needs.
  • Attract and grow top engineering talent, building a team culture that emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and customer trust.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high availability and security requirements.
  • Strong track record building and managing high-performing teams, including experience scaling organizations through multiple phases of growth.
  • Proven success driving cross-functional security initiatives and influencing leaders without direct authority.
  • Ability to provide technical direction at the architecture level while fostering a pragmatic execution mindset.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to evangelize IAM practices and inspire both teams and stakeholders.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Skills

Required:IAM strategyDistributed systemsArchitectural leadership

Benefits

  • Benefits detailed in regional document linked in the posting.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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