Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access – AI Platform

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $220k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Redpanda Data

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $100M Series D - Redpanda Data on 2025-04

Enterprise • SaaS • B2B

Redpanda Data is the company behind Redpanda, a high-performance streaming data platform compatible with the Apache Kafka API. Redpanda provides a single-binary, low-latency, high-throughput message streaming engine and managed cloud offerings designed as a drop-in replacement for Kafka to simplify real-time data pipelines, event-driven applications, logs, and metrics. The company focuses on delivering enterprise-grade streaming infrastructure for developer and operations teams via self-managed software and managed SaaS/cloud services.

📋 Description

• Own technical direction for AuthN, AuthZ, and OBO across the Agentic Data Platform and Cloud platform • Decide which emerging industry patterns Redpanda adopts, adapts, or avoids • Extend the OAuth 2.1 authorization server and token vault • Build delegated tool-access flows and a cryptographic delegation model for auditable on-behalf-of authority chains • Partner with identity-federation systems including Okta, Entra, Ping, and similar providers • Collaborate with Agentic Data Plane, Cloud platform engineering, Security, and Product • Represent Redpanda's technical position in customer security conversations, documentation, and standards efforts • Ship production-hardened systems to customers • Mentor engineers across Agentic Data Platform and Cloud platform without formal management authority • Escalate systemic challenges and impediments to engineering leadership • Discuss strategic topics with peers and Directors • Track progress, assess risks, and communicate contingency and mitigation plans

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development and delivery, with deep, hands-on expertise in authentication, authorization, or identity systems • Production experience with OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, token exchange or delegation patterns (e.g. RFC 8693, on-behalf-of flows) • Practical experience running an authorization server and token vault at scale • Current point of view on agent identity standards, including MCP auth, A2A, and cross-app access patterns • Experience federating with customers' existing identity providers, such as Okta, Entra, or Ping, in security-conscious enterprise environments • Track record of driving technical direction across multiple teams or organizations as an individual contributor • Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams and working openly on GitHub • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Direct experience with OAuth 2.1/OIDC authorization servers, token vaults, or equivalent identity infrastructure is highlighted • Experience with agent-specific identity or delegation protocols is highlighted • Experience with relevant open standards bodies or working groups is highlighted • Experience in regulated or security-sensitive enterprise environments is highlighted • Prior Staff/Principal-level individual contributor experience is highlighted

🏖️ Benefits

• Latest AI tools and budget to use them • Diverse, people-first organization • Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness • Globally distributed team • Human hiring decisions after AI-assisted screening and assessment