Staff Identity Engineer

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September 5

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Keycard Labs

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Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • SaaS

Keycard Labs is a company that specializes in creating a unified identity infrastructure for agents, tools, and applications. They provide solutions that enhance agent security and control through dynamic, task-scoped access tokens, allowing developers to build trusted AI experiences while ensuring compliance and visibility. With a focus on eliminating secret sprawl, Keycard Labs enables organizations to delegate access securely and efficiently, supporting the development of autonomous agents in a compliant manner.

1 - 10 employees

Founded 2025

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Build the identity, authentication, authorization, and data systems at the heart of Keycard • Design and deliver distributed, asynchronous services that provide strong security guarantees and perform auth decisions in under 10ms • Contribute across the product surface from SDKs and developer-facing APIs to core identity and data systems • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with founders, product, design, engineering, and customers to shape the product • Invent agent-native identity integrations and enable agentic workflows and frameworks • Iterate quickly in ambiguous early-stage environment, making trade-offs for short-term delivery while laying groundwork for long-term systems • Lead by example, raising the bar for technical excellence and helping teammates succeed

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience building and operating core identity, authentication, and authorization systems • Ability to implement protocols like OAuth, OIDC, TLS, and related primitives • Proven ability to design secure, multi-tenant, distributed systems with simple/extensible data models and strong guarantees around consensus and transactionality • Hands-on programming experience and developer-first mindset; fluent in Go, Rust, or similar languages • Experience building distributed, asynchronous services that operate at global scale and low latency • Experience designing APIs, SDKs, and developer-facing libraries • Iterative 0→1 delivery experience in early-stage startups • Empathetic leadership, collaboration, and written communication skills for distributed teams • Remote collaboration mastery and experience working in distributed teams • Authorization to work in the United States or Canada (application form question)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and paramedical coverage for you and your family • 4 weeks of vacation • 11 statutory holidays • 1 volunteer day • Encourage at least 2 weeks off annually • Competitive market-competitive salary • Generous equity packages (4 year vest, 1 year cliff) • New MacBook Pro provided • $500 stipend for peripherals • Access to top AI tools and best-in-class tooling • Top-of-the-line equipment & tools • Flexible, remote-first work and asynchronous collaboration