Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

About the role

Lambda is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management team and define how identity, authentication, authorization, and key-management services are built and scaled across Lambda Cloud.

The team owns foundational identity and authorization services used across Lambda products, including APIs, Console, Kubernetes products, and cloud services. This is a technically engaged leadership role focused on execution, team health, and organizational direction, working with technical leadership on architecture, strategy, and design for highly available, low-latency, resilient services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Identity and Access Management team and define how its services are built and scaled.
• Own execution, team health, and organizational direction.
• Work with technical leadership on architecture, strategy, and design decisions.
• Drive alignment across Security, Product, Compliance, and customer-facing teams.
• Support identity federation, SSO, SCIM, users and groups, service and workload identities, RBAC, resource hierarchy, policy enforcement, and audit integration.

Requirements

• Customers require the ability to federate corporate identities, manage human and machine access, enforce least privilege, protect data with keys they control, and audit activity across their environments.
• The services must be highly available, low latency, and resilient.

Key facts

• Presence in the San Francisco or San Jose office is required 4 days per week.
• Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
• The team owns identity and authorization services across APIs, Console, Kubernetes products, and cloud services.