Crusoe
Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 10 days ago
The role
You will set the technical direction for the Identity & Access Management platform. This includes owning multi-quarter architecture for authorization models, identity federation, and secrets management for the AI cloud.
What you will do
- Set and own multi-quarter architecture for authorization, authentication, and identity lifecycle
- Define identity primitives, authorization patterns, and guardrails for the platform
- Lead evaluation and adoption of core IAM technologies
- Solve high-risk problems like scaling the authorization hot path and tenant isolation
- Write and review code on critical and complex paths
- Drive cross-team technical alignment and author design reviews and RFCs
- Lead threat modeling and secure-by-design practices
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and shape hiring and technical strategy
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems in Go
- Significant experience with identity, authorization, or other security-critical systems
- Track record of leading the design of large-scale systems
- Ability to deliver complex, fault-tolerant distributed systems and managed cloud services
- Mastery of OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, and JWT / token exchange
- Mastery of RBAC/ABAC and fine-grained / relationship-based authorization
- Mastery of identity federation and IdP integration
- Mastery of SCIM and identity lifecycle
- Mastery of credential and secrets management
- Experience defining SLOs, building observability, and leading incident response
- Enterprise security and compliance acumen (e.g., SOC 2)
Nice to have
- Policy-as-code and modern authorization engines - OPA, Cedar, or Zanzibar-style systems such as SpiceDB and OpenFGA
- Experience with identity for AI agents and agentic workloads
- Experience building for or operating GPU / AI cloud infrastructure
- Enterprise compliance experience beyond SOC 2, such as FedRAMP or other regulated-environment frameworks
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
About the company
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to build AI infrastructure.