Lead Platform Engineer (Identity & Access)

Location: Remote-first (United States)

Salary: $204,800–$290,000 base annual compensation across geographic zones, plus eligibility for a company-wide bonus program.

Company

hirify.global is an agentic web marketing platform that helps modern marketing teams build, manage, and optimize high-performing web experiences.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and roadmap for workforce identity, with Okta as the core platform, including build-versus-buy decisions.
• Establish Okta management standards covering configuration, hardening, change control, and configuration as code using Terraform, APIs, Okta Workflows, or scripts.
• Automate joiner-to-leaver identity lifecycle processes using the HRIS as the source of truth and SCIM for downstream applications.
• Build application onboarding paths with standard SSO patterns, provisioning templates, and federated access to cloud and source control platforms.
• Design RBAC, least-privilege controls, access requests and approvals, access reviews, phishing-resistant MFA, device trust, and risk-based access.
• Respond to identity incidents and outages, provide critical-service on-call coverage, conduct post-incident reviews and log analysis, stream identity telemetry to Security, and manage the Okta vendor relationship, licensing, and cost.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in identity, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of a workforce identity platform at meaningful scale.
• Deep hands-on experience architecting an enterprise identity provider; Okta is strongly preferred.
• Fluency in SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM, including debugging at the token and assertion level.
• Experience with identity governance, RBAC design, HRIS-driven lifecycle automation, and audit requirements.
• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust, identity-based attacks, device trust, and security of non-human identities.
• Scripting ability in Python, JavaScript, or a similar language, plus infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform.
• Clear communication with senior and executive audiences and the ability to drive architecture decisions.
• Ability to influence Security, HR, and application owners, mentor others, and serve as the lead identity expert.
• Ability to use AI tools with good judgment and proactively build fluency in emerging technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience governing identities for AI tools and agents.
• Okta certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, full-time, permanent, exempt position with flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
• Equity through RSUs and eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and dependents, with most premiums covered.
• Paid parental leave, family-planning support, mental-health resources, therapy, and coaching.
• 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year in the U.S., plus localized work and wellness stipends.
• Values include customer trust, teamwork, reinvention, and end-to-end ownership.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is closed and filled.
• The position is new and reports to the Senior Director of Information Technology.