Senior Security Engineer, Identity & Access Management

🕒 May 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Valon

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🏠 Real Estate

Finance • Fintech • Real Estate

Valon is a residential mortgage servicer, lender, and insurance agency focused on empowering homeowners. The company offers a wide range of services to manage mortgages, provide loans, and offer insurance solutions to homeowners. Valon aims to simplify the process of homeownership through ease, security, and financial expertise, utilizing modern technology to deliver personalized and streamlined services. With a mission to transform the traditional mortgage industry, Valon provides convenient and intuitive platforms for managing mortgages and accessing financial resources, striving for high-quality customer service and competitive rates.

📋 Description

• Design and support end-to-end lifecycle of workforce identity systems including identity automation, access management, and least-privilege enforcement across internal systems • Support design of secure identity design patterns for product teams building on ValonOS • Manage and evolve Valon's IdP in conjunction with IT including SSO integrations, MFA policies, conditional access rules, and directory synchronization • Define and enforce RBAC and group-based access policies for internal applications, cloud environments, and development tooling • Support privileged access management (PAM) for internal infrastructure in conjunction with Engineering teams • Design and build AI-assisted workflows that automate and accelerate core IAM operations • Evaluate AI risks across IAM pipelines, ensuring appropriate security controls around data exposure, prompt injection and other threats • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, Legal, and other teams to identify and drive mitigation for data security risks • Support other operational and on-call duties such as vulnerability management, regulatory compliance (SOC 2, CCPA, NYDFS, FTC), policy development, incident response and security reviews.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive hands-on IAM security engineer with proven ownership of enterprise identity solutions, able to operate autonomously, drive complex cross-functional efforts, and influence across teams • Deep expertise in modern identity protocols and standards: SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM, LDAP, and related specifications • Proven experience administering and scaling IdP platforms (e.g., Okta, Azure AD / Entra ID, Google Workspace) including SSO, MFA, conditional access, and directory sync • Solid background in cloud IAM (GCP preferred), including service accounts, workload identity federation, and policy-as-code approaches • Strong expertise in building PAM solutions / identity vaults and enforcing least-privilege across human and non-human identities • Experience building AI/LLM-powered workflows — ideally in a security or operations context — with a practical understanding of the identity and access risks they introduce • Familiarity with securing non-human and agentic identities, including AI service accounts, API key governance, and audit logging for automated systems • Applied knowledge with industry security and compliance frameworks (OWASP, NIST, CIS, SOC 2/ISO 27001 concepts) • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Experience working in high-growth or startup environments is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan • Health & well-being: We’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits • Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient • Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback • Play together: Quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes, or team dinners! • Generous time off: Flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays • Baby bonding time!: 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition