Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
Required skills
- identity
- access management
- authentication
- authorization
- backend systems
- APIs
- production systems
- API design
- code quality
- MFA
Nice to have
- Okta
- Oso
- Copilot
- Pro Access
- delegated access
- enterprise identity
Role summary
Brex is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Identity & Access Management (IAM) team in Seattle. This role involves building and maintaining secure authentication and authorization systems, leading projects to enhance security, reliability, and developer experience. Responsibilities include designing and operating backend systems, improving access flows, extending authorization capabilities, creating audit trails, and partnering with other engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in backend development, strong IAM concepts, API design, project leadership, and a focus on operational excellence. Experience with specific IAM tools like Okta and Oso is a plus.
Why join us
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
Engineering at Brex
Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration, own outcomes end to end, and push for excellence from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft and builders grow by solving meaningful technical problems.
What you’ll do
The Identity and Access Management team builds and maintains secure, user-friendly authentication and authorization systems that protect users, safeguard company assets, and provide a seamless access experience for developers. The team owns critical platform capabilities including login methods, step-up authentication, our custom authorization platform, account delegation flows like Copilot, Pro Access login, embedded partnerships authentication, and core vendor integrations.
As a Staff Engineer on IAM, you will lead projects and initiatives to improve the security, reliability, and developer experience of our authentication, authorization, and identity platforms for customers, partners, and internal systems. You will scope and drive projects with clear impact, work cross-functionally with the broader engineering organization, help define the team’s technical quality, and help evolve the identity platform as Brex invests in signed identity propagation, delegated and agent identity, fine-grained authorization, stronger auditability, and enterprise-ready customer authentication experiences.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in our Seattle office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to be designated in office days. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Responsibilities
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Bonus points
Compensation:
The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
Sample Brex interview questions
- 1
How would you architect a scalable platform for personalizing web content for millions of users in real-time?
system designmedium - 2
Suppose you have to send a message to ten million active users at once. How do you design the system to absorb that shock?
system designmedium - 3
Design CamelCamelCamel
system designmedium - 4
How do you set up circuit breakers for an ML system to prevent it from quietly destroying user trust over time?
technicalmedium - 5
Merge a New Interval Merge a new interval into a list of non-overlapping intervals. Input: intervals = [[1,2],[3,5],[6,7],[8,10],[12,16]], newInterval = [4,8] Output: [[1,2],[3,10],[12,16]] Explanation: The new interval overlaps with [3,5], [6,7], and [8,10], merging them all into the unified block [3,10].
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