# Engineering Manager - Identity and Access Management (IAM)

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $181k – $241k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Identity And Access Management, IAM, Authentication, Authorization, Access Control, Distributed Systems, Cloud Security, OAuth, SAML, Ldap, Kubernetes
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Engineering Manager leading IAM team to scale authentication, authorization, and identity services for Databricks' data and AI platform. Requires 5+ years leadership, deep IAM expertise, and experience with large-scale secure systems.

## Job Description

## The impact you will have:
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering team focused on authentication, authorization, and identity management at cloud scale.
- Define and drive the strategy for IAM systems, including user identity, access control frameworks, and authentication.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders across Databricks to embed secure, scalable identity solutions into every aspect of our product.
- Ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with industry best practices for IAM, helping customers meet their own governance, privacy, and security needs.
- Provide technical oversight on architecture and design for IAM components while guiding the team to deliver pragmatic, high-quality solutions.
- Attract and grow top engineering talent, building a team culture that emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and customer trust.

## What we look for:
- 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with 5+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Strong track record building and managing high-performing teams, including experience scaling organizations through multiple phases of growth.
- Deep expertise in IAM domains: authentication, identity management and access control.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high availability and security requirements.
- Proven success driving cross-functional security initiatives and influencing leaders without direct authority.
- Ability to provide technical direction at the architecture level while fostering a pragmatic execution mindset.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to evangelize IAM practices and inspire both teams and stakeholders.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

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