Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $195k - $236.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Circle

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501 - 1000 employees

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Fintech • Crypto • Web 3

Circle is a financial technology company that focuses on utilizing blockchain technology to enable seamless, faster and secure transactions. Their main product, USDC, is a stablecoin designed to provide stability by being fully reserved and redeemable 1:1 for US dollars, and is widely used in global transactions to facilitate cross-border payments, crypto capital markets, and global dollar access. Circle offers an open developer platform that allows businesses to integrate blockchain functionalities such as programmable wallets and smart contracts into their applications. The company is committed to transparency and publishes regular reports on their reserve holdings.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for authentication, authorization, customer identity, and emerging agent identity capabilities • Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Circle’s identity and access platform • Manage, coach, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers • Lead technical designs, review critical code paths, debug production issues, participate in incident response, and build prototypes • Partner with Security, Product, Onboarding, Risk, and product engineering teams • Sequence competing requests into a roadmap and explain trade-offs • Run planning, scoping, migrations, cutovers, rollback plans, and status reporting • Improve engineering practices, operational readiness, and reliable platform capabilities • Help the broader organization understand how identity works at Circle

🎯 Requirements

• At least three years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and developing senior individual contributors • Experience leading a team through a significant migration, re-platforming, or architectural change • Substantial hands-on experience building identity, authentication, authorization, or access-control systems at scale • Experience with OAuth 2.x and OIDC, SAML and enterprise SSO, session and token design, API credentials, service or workload identity, MFA and passkeys, or policy and entitlement engines • Experience designing systems that other teams built on, with strong architectural judgment • Recent experience designing, prototyping, reviewing, or shipping production code • Experience with real-world Identity, Auth/Authz security problems • Ability to write usable design documents and explain complex systems plainly • Direct experience with Okta, Auth0, or an equivalent customer identity platform is especially valuable • Experience with AI agent identity, delegated authorization, workload identity, service identity, or other non-human identity systems is especially valuable • Experience building or operating systems where software agents or automated services take consequential actions under bounded authority is especially valuable • Experience in fintech, crypto, payments, or another regulated environment is nice to have • Familiarity with on-behalf-of token exchange, MCP authorization, SPIFFE/SPIRE, workload identity federation, agent registries, or policy engines such as OPA or Cedar is nice to have • Experience with Java or Kotlin backend systems and modern TypeScript frontend applications is nice to have • Experience leading a geographically distributed team is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Inclusive workplace • Interview accommodations and assistance for candidates with disabilities