engineering
Posted 1 weeks agoStaff Software Engineer: Agent Identity and Authorization
at Delinea
Remote
Responsibilities
- - 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.
- - Build authorization and continuous-evaluation capabilities that draw on the live session and decision signals our identity products already produce.
Requirements
- Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI.
- SUMMARY: AI agents break the assumptions traditional identity systems were built on: who is acting, on whose behalf, and with what authority.
- In 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.
- This role will report directly into our Director of Engineering, Securing AI.
- WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Design the identity model for AI agents, including delegated (on-behalf-of) actions, composite identities, and how agent activity is attributed for audit.
- - 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.
- 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. WE'D 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.
- Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy.
Experience
- WHAT YOU'LL NEED: - Typically 10 or more years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in identity, authorization, or distributed systems security. - Hands-on
Benefits
- 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.
Contact
- Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com http://Delinea.com, LinkedIn https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fdelinea%2F&data=05%7C02%7CMichele.Eaton%40delinea.com%7C766420d58b9a492d94ca08ddd6949f59%7C18d6ed03f0e5486183d2bb7b6c7c2bb2%7C0%7C0%7C638902656186877399%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b1LCPIWSjxvblUYLlabUnRZ43S8rcspTQcBZsz0UbmU%3D&reserved=0,
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
- The interfaces you define set the technical direction for the teams building on top of you.
- - 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.