Senior Systems Development Engineer, Workforce Identity & Access Management, Ring IT

Protect Rings customer trust and business continuity through secure automated identity management. Your work will prevent access failures and security incidents for 9000 Ring Blink Key and Sidewalk team members across four business units. Lead design and delivery of workforce IAM automation building systems that secure service credentials provision team-based access and eliminate manual identity management. Set technical direction for RBKS identity architecture influence security decisions across multiple teams and mentor engineers while participating in promotion assessments.

Key job responsibilities
Lead architecture and design of workforce identity and access management solutions across RBKS organizations. Build and maintain identity automation systems for user lifecycle management access provisioning and security. Manage 1000 SSO integrations using SAML and OIDC protocols. Design automated credential management systems including rotation vaulting and least-privilege controls. Respond to and coordinate resolution of IAM-related security incidents with InfoSec teams. Deploy and maintain collaboration platform infrastructure using EKS CDK Helm and ArgoCD. Influence multi-team security architecture decisions and mentor engineers.

A day in the life
Your mornings might start with leading architectural design sessions where youre shaping how 200 engineering teams will gain access to their tools. When security incidents ariselike a suspected unauthorized access attemptyoull coordinate the response with InfoSec investigating the root cause and implementing safeguards. Throughout the day youll enable teams to manage their own access by configuring automated provisioning troubleshoot production issues like API rate limiting and deploy infrastructure updates to critical systems like Jira using modern tools like EKS and ArgoCD all while maintaining zero downtime.

About the team
Were a 6-person engineering team managing identity collaboration and development tools for RBKS (Ring Blink Key and Sidewalk). We build automation services handling employee lifecycle and access provisioning. We participate in weekly on-call rotation value ownership celebrate knowledge sharing and maintain work-life balance.

Your customers are all RBKS employeesfrom engineers and customer service to operations and marketingwho depend on frictionless secure access to collaboration tools. When you automate provisioning workflows or quickly resolve SSO integration issues youre removing friction that slows teams across RBKS.


- Experience with Linux/Unix
- 6 years of systems design software development operations automation and process improvement experience
- 6 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- Experience writing technical documents project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
- Experience with programming languages like Python JavaScript Java or equivalent
- Knowledge of security technology and concepts (Authentication Authorization Single sign-on Cryptography etc.)

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security
- Experience in mentoring leading or managing more junior engineers
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization or experience in computer architecture

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Irvine - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually