Staff IAM Engineer (IAM Architecture & Governance)

The role

This role is a hybrid position managing human access governance and machine identity management. You will design and improve Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) frameworks and develop Non-Human Identity (NHI) security strategies.

What you will do

• Serve as primary SME for human Identity Governance design and improvement
• Partner with audit, Risk, and Compliance teams to provide evidence and remediate findings
• Translate compliance frameworks like SOX, SOC2, and ISO 27001 into IAM technical controls
• Build automation platforms to meet compliance and audit requirements
• Execute enterprise strategy for managing Non-Human Identities across multi-cloud and on-premise environments
• Evaluate and implement NHI and secrets management platforms
• Establish lifecycle governance for NHIs
• Identify and manage hardcoded secrets in source code and CI/CD pipelines
• Develop automated workflows for NHI discovery and secret rotation
• Build zero-touch provisioning and deprovisioning workflows

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated experience in Identity & Access Management
• Experience in IGA platforms and secrets/machine identity management
• Hands-on engineering and development experience with modern NHI lifecycle tools (Entro, Oasis, Zuma)
• Strong coding and scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, and Go
• Experience facing auditors and communicating technical IAM concepts to non-technical teams
• Comprehensive understanding of SSO, MFA, SAML, OIDC, Active Directory, PAM, and RBAC/ABAC

Nice to have

• Administrative experience with Saviynt (EIC/Cloud)

About the company

Coupang is a fast-growing e-commerce company with a startup culture and the resources of a large global public company. The company aims to build the future of commerce by solving customer problems through high-tech and hyper-connected experiences.