Staff Software Engineer, IAM

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $163,000 PA - $217,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Mozilla Corporation is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, IAM to lead the redesign of their Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. This role focuses on enhancing scalability, security, and user experience, positioning IAM as a platform offering within the infrastructure organization. The engineer will be responsible for architecting the system redesign, guiding technical decisions, promoting engineering best practices, and fostering cross-functional collaboration. Key tasks include driving automation and self-service capabilities, ensuring robust security and compliance, and documenting design guidelines. The position requires meeting with engineering teams to understand access management needs and resolving urgent tasks.
Must have:
  • 8+ years experience in software engineering
  • 5+ years extensive IAM expertise
  • Proven technical leadership experience
  • Expertise in AuthN, AuthZ, and access governance
  • Deep knowledge of identity lifecycle management
  • Proficient in Python, JavaScript
  • Strong expertise in GCP and cloud-native technologies
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Self-starter
  • Curiosity and interest in learning
Good to have:
  • Experience with distributed systems architecture
  • Knowledge of cloud security principles (IAM)
  • Open source software involvement
Perks:
  • Generous performance-based bonus plans
  • Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous retirement contributions with 100% vesting
  • Quarterly all-company wellness days
  • Country specific holidays plus birthday off
  • One-time home office stipend
  • Annual professional development budget
  • Quarterly well-being stipend
  • Considerable paid parental leave
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP)

Job Details

Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. 

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this role:

Mozilla IAM team seeks a Staff Software Engineer to rebuild our Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. Our IAM modernization project aims to enhance scalability, security, user experience, and position IAM as a platform offering within the infrastructure organization. This role would report through our SRE organization.

What you’ll do:

  • Architect and lead IAM system redesign, emphasizing user experience and scalability.
  • Guide technical decision-making and adoption of user-centric solutions.
  • Guide team members and promote engineering standard methodologies, with a focus on usability and maintainability.
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration for efficient and cohesive platform delivery.
  • Drive automation and self-service capabilities in IAM, ensuring robust security, compliance, and improved user satisfaction.
  • Meet with engineering teams across Mozilla to understand their needs and concerns around access management.
  • Document standard methodologies and design guidelines
  • Be trusted to resolve unclear but urgent tasks
What you’ll bring:
  • 8+ years experience in software engineering with at least 5 years of extensive IAM expertise.
  • Proven technical leadership experience.
  • Expertise in AuthN, AuthZ, and access governance.
  • Deep knowledge of identity lifecycle management and access governance.
  • Proficient in Python, JavaScript.
  • Strong expertise in GCP and cloud-native technologies.
  • Excellent communication skills aligning technology with user needs and organizational goals.
  • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity.
  • Curiosity and interest in learning new things
  • Commitment to our values:
    • Welcoming differences
    • Being relationship-minded
    • Practicing responsible participation
    • Having grit
Bonus points for…
  • Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
  • Knowledge of cloud security principles (especially around IAM)
  • Open source software involvement

What you’ll get:

  • Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees - we share in our success as one team
  • Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
  • Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
  • Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
  • One-time home office stipend
  • Annual professional development budget
  • Quarterly well-being stipend
  • Considerable paid parental leave
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

About Mozilla 

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.  We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.  Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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