Principal Security Engineer, Customer Identity Management (CIAM)

Location: Houston, Texas, USA; work activities are performed in an office or home-office environment

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered offer management and revenue optimization software for the airline industry.

What you will do

• Define and own the long-term Customer Identity Management strategy, architecture, roadmap, and operating model.
• Design authentication, authorization, identity federation, lifecycle management, and governance services across customer-facing products.
• Establish standards for SSO, MFA, SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, RBAC, ABAC, and zero-trust security.
• Develop a unified identity architecture supporting multiple products, tenants, and customer organizations.
• Lead CIAM platform selection, integration, deployment, monitoring, logging, and operational governance.
• Partner with product, engineering, security operations, compliance, and customer success teams; mentor engineers and architects.

Requirements

• 10+ years of security engineering or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing enterprise IAM or CIAM solutions.
• Deep expertise in OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, identity federation, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, and zero-trust architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms, SaaS architectures, and identity platforms such as Auth0, Okta, Entra ID, Ping Identity, or ForgeRock.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture, threat modeling, and secure software development practices.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence architecture decisions across engineering organizations.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Understanding of core AI concepts, prompt design, and agentic AI systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible ways of working across office and home-office environments.
• Continuous learning and opportunities for professional growth.
• Culture centered on ownership, innovation, care, and customer success.
• Work on AI-driven airline retailing and intelligent revenue optimization products.