Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform

Circle

. Set the technical direction for authentication, authorization, customer identity, and emerging agent identity capabilities .

Posted 10/14/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $195,000 - $236,667 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing and leading software engineering teams, with a strong focus on building and architecting identity and access control systems. Proficient in technical direction, operational readiness, and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

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Identity And Access Control SystemsOAuth 2.x And OIDCTeam Management And CoachingJava Or Kotlin Backend SystemsOkta Or Auth0 Experience

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Hard Skills

AuthenticationAuthorizationAPI CredentialsMFA And PasskeysSession And Token DesignArchitectural DesignPrototypingIncident ResponseDebuggingPerformance Management

Soft Skills

CommunicationLeadershipCoachingCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

OktaAuth0Policy EnginesMCP AuthorizationSPIFFE/SPIREWorkload Identity FederationAgent RegistriesCedar

Industry Keywords

FintechCryptoPaymentsRegulated Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaKotlinTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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