Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

Location: Remote, Toronto, ON

Base salary: CAD $170,000–$220,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software for Managed Service Providers and internal IT organizations worldwide, supporting more than 15 million endpoints and customers in over 20 countries.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, coach, and manage an engineering team responsible for authentication, authorization, identity services, and platform integrations.
• Modernize hirify.globalOne by migrating identity capabilities from a monolithic application into independently deployable services.
• Guide architecture and technical decisions for federated identity, session management, token issuance, API access, OAuth clients, delegated authorization, user provisioning, and multi-tenant access.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security to prioritize initiatives, manage dependencies, define milestones, and mitigate delivery risks.
• Oversee backend services using Go, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and related platform technologies.
• Improve availability, security, observability, incident response, deployment reliability, testing, and engineering effectiveness, including safe migration and rollback practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, backend platforms, or distributed systems.
• 3+ years of direct software engineering team management, including hiring, performance management, technical delivery, and career development.
• Experience designing, developing, or operating production identity and access management systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, or enterprise SSO.
• Experience leading modernization, migration, or re-architecture of production backend services or customer-facing platforms.
• Experience guiding architecture and operating cloud-based distributed systems using AWS, Azure, or GCP, including production reliability and incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go or similar backend languages and microservices architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies such as Istio, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience integrating Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS identity, machine authentication, token lifecycle management, or fine-grained authorization.
• Experience managing distributed teams across locations or time zones.
• Experience with phased migrations, feature-flagged deployments, reliability improvements, AI-assisted development practices, or AI-enabled security capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with remote work conditions and a Toronto, ON location.
• Opportunity to work on identity infrastructure supporting authentication and access across a broad product portfolio.
• Eligible roles may receive benefits and additional rewards based on individual impact; some roles may also include sales incentives.
• Equal employment opportunity is provided regardless of legally protected characteristics.