# Software Engineer, Identity

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $325k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Authentication, Authorization, Provisioning, Directory Sync, Security Design, Slack Api, Hr Systems Integration
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Build and scale Mercor's novel identity and access management infrastructure across thousands of Slack workspaces and HR systems for a 100k+ expert network. Requires strong product engineering, large-scale distributed systems experience, and security-minded design instincts.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Talk directly with ops teams to understand business requirements, then translate them into large-scale distributed systems that are designed with security in mind from the start.
- Build and scale the infrastructure that manages expert identity and access across thousands of Slack workspaces, enterprise groups, and HR systems — systems that already operate at a scale most engineers never encounter.
- Own your scope end to end: define the approach, build it, and iterate on it as requirements evolve.
- Design for the security implications of what you're building — not auditing after the fact, but thinking through how gaps in system design compound at scale.
- Work across authentication, authorization, provisioning, and directory sync as the expert network continues to grow.

## What We're Looking For
- Strong product engineering fundamentals — you've built and operated systems in production, you care about correctness and reliability, and you're comfortable owning scope without a lot of hand-holding.
- Large-scale distributed systems experience — this is the most identifiable signal on a resume and a strong filter; the problems here are genuinely unprecedented in scale.
- Security-minded thinking — not a formal background necessarily, but the instinct to ask "how does this break, and what are the consequences?" when designing a system.
- Adaptability — we don't want someone who will come in and replicate what they've done before; Mercor's landscape is unique and requires genuine intellectual flexibility.

## Benefits
- Generous equity, vested over 4 years.
- Up to $15K relocation bonus.
- $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of the office).
- $1,500/month meals stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200/month laundry reimbursement.
- $200/month personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.

## Similar roles

- [IT Security Operations Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ab8df8f3-05c1-4b41-a516-c95445575498) - AKASA - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $190k/yr
- [Security Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/79d32979-efc0-42db-8089-267517d351aa) - Novig - New York, NY - $150k – $200k/yr
- [Governance, Risk & Compliance Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5dc30200-7d11-41fc-9e8e-f0f18b5b8caf) - Fal - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $250k/yr
- [Manager, Security Incident Response Team (USA)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1cfbd1e7-a701-4a35-b746-7380bcf6ffac) - GitLab - Remote - $150k – $235k/yr
- [Security Engineer (Purple Team)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a555c8c6-de26-4174-8934-a2a145176469) - Applied Intuition - Sunnyvale, CA - $150k – $220k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/95795ec8-bfd1-44c8-a7a1-b16c9be3d31b
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/95795ec8-bfd1-44c8-a7a1-b16c9be3d31b