Staff Software Engineer Agent Identity and Authorization

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent centralized authorization empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence Delineas leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle across cloud and traditional infrastructure data SaaS applications and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities including workforce IT administrator developers and machines assign appropriate access levels detect irregularities and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks not months 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor and a 99.995% uptime Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on LinkedIn X and YouTube.

Join our passionate global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership outstanding engineers and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity innovation and a culture of respect and fairness. If youre ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Summary:

AI agents break the assumptions traditional identity systems were built on: who is acting on whose behalf and with what this foundational role you will design and build the core identity and authorization building blocks that everything else in our AI security platform depends on from how we model agent identity and delegated actions to how we decide what an agent can do at runtime. The interfaces you define set the technical direction for the teams building on top of you. This role will report directly into our Director of Engineering Securing AI.

What Youll Do:

• Design the identity model for AI agents including delegated (on-behalf-of) actions composite identities and how agent activity is attributed for audit.

• Build the authorization engine that decides in real time what an agent is allowed to do and help select the underlying policy technology such as Cedar OPA or AuthZEN.

• Define how we establish trust in identities issued by outside platforms such as Microsoft Entra and Salesforce and by emerging standards like OpenID Connect for agents.

• Build authorization and continuous-evaluation capabilities that draw on the live session and decision signals our identity products already produce.

• Own the interfaces and contracts the rest of the platform builds against and keep them clean as the platform grows.

• Act as a technical leader across teams setting direction and raising the bar on identity and authorization.

What Youll Need:

• Typically 10 or more years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in identity authorization or distributed systems security.

• Hands-on experience building authorization or policy systems such as Cedar OPA OpenFGA or a comparable engine.

• Working knowledge of identity and token standards such as OAuth OpenID Connect SPIFFE and SPIRE or workload identity federation.

• A track record of designing systems and interfaces that other teams build on at scale.

• Ability to lead technical decisions that span multiple teams and communicate them clearly to varied audiences.

Wed Love to See:

• Experience securing AI or agentic systems.

• Contributions to identity authorization or security standards or open source.

• Background in privileged access secrets management or identity governance.

For this Job Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes but is not limited to: F1-OPT F1-CPT H-1B TN L-1 J1 etc.

Why work at Delinea

• Were passionate problem-solvers helping the worlds largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart self-motivated and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen value different perspectives and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions and our process for hiring evaluating and promoting employees helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries a meaningful bonus program and excellent benefits including healthcare insurance as well as pension/retirement matching comprehensive life insurance an employee assistance program time off plans and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check verification of education and verification of employment per employment addition all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.

Required Experience:

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