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Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. The company's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and democratize access to superintelligence.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team and define how identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services are built and scaled across Lambda Cloud. This team owns foundational identity and authorization services on the critical path for every Lambda product—spanning APIs, Console, Kubernetes products, and cloud services. Responsibilities include identity federation, SSO, SCIM, users and groups, service and workload identities, RBAC, resource hierarchy, policy enforcement, and audit integration.
This is a technically engaged leadership role where you will own execution, team health, and organizational direction while working with technical leadership on architecture, strategy, and design decisions for services that must be highly available, low-latency, and resilient. You will drive alignment across Security, Product, Compliance, and customer-facing teams to build durable platform capabilities adopted consistently across Lambda's services.
Key responsibilities include building and leading the IAM engineering team, hiring exceptional engineers, developing technical leaders, and creating a culture of ownership and high engineering standards. You will work closely with IAM technical leaders to define long-term technical and architectural strategy, build secure and scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads, and evolve the authorization platform with least privilege and auditability as defaults. You will also own Lambda's Key Management Service, including customer-managed keys, HSM-backed protection, key lifecycle controls, and integration across compute, storage, and networking.
You will own the reliability, security, performance, and operations of mission-critical IAM services including observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and disaster recovery. You will translate enterprise requirements into durable platform capabilities and communicate strategy, delivery, risk, and operational health clearly to senior leadership. The role requires balancing the complexity and flexibility required for enterprise-grade IAM with simple, intuitive experiences for customers with varying levels of identity and access expertise.
Required qualifications include 9+ years of professional software engineering experience with 3+ years leading and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment. You must have built and operated large-scale distributed systems with high availability, security, and reliability requirements, and bring strong technical judgment across cloud infrastructure and IAM including authentication, authorization, workload identity, privileged access, and policy enforcement. You should have a strong track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineers and technical leaders through periods of growth and change, and experience driving cross-functional platform or security initiatives. A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field is required, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice-to-have qualifications include experience with public-cloud or multi-tenant IAM, authorization/policy engines, security token services, KMS, HSMs, customer-managed keys, secrets management, encryption platforms, supporting enterprise or regulated customers, building foundational platforms in high-growth environments, and supporting compliance programs such as SOC 2.
