Security Software Engineer, IAM

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, with three days per week in the office.

Salary: $208,000–$312,000 annual base pay in San Francisco; compensation outside San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location.

Company

Vercel provides agentic infrastructure and developer-focused products for shipping and running software.

What you will do

• Migrate Okta and related IAM configuration to Terraform and help engineering teams adopt infrastructure as code.
• Build a self-service access platform with just-in-time access, owner-defined requests, and time-bound permissions.
• Own provisioning, deprovisioning, and access review workflows that automatically generate SOC 2 audit evidence.
• Unify corporate and production IAM across employee identities, SaaS, devices, service accounts, infrastructure permissions, and on-call access.
• Enforce least-privilege access across cloud, SaaS, and production infrastructure.
• Define how agents request and hold access in collaboration with the Accounts team on product-facing identity.

Requirements

• 7+ years building and owning identity, access management, or platform security systems, including IAM design across corporate and production environments.
• Experience with Okta or an equivalent corporate IAM platform and AWS or GCP production environments.
• Experience building and operating production services or self-service platforms in TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or Python, including REST APIs.
• Protocol-level implementation of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, and SCIM, including token replay and sync drift failure modes.
• Experience managing IAM infrastructure as code in Terraform.

Nice to have

• Led a Terraform migration for IAM or identity infrastructure at scale.
• Designed or built a JIT access system or access governance platform.
• Designed delegation or scoped-credential models for agents or service identities.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with three required office days per week in San Francisco or New York City.
• Competitive compensation package that may include equity and a company bonus or variable pay program.
• Inclusive healthcare package and flexible time off.
• Mentorship, learning opportunities, and support for attending professional events.
• Company-provided equipment and a work-from-home budget.