Director of Engineering, Cloud Identity

Summary

Join Temporal as the Director of Engineering for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of IAM systems. You will guide the IAM engineering team, collaborate with other teams, and ensure the delivery of scalable, secure identity systems. Leverage insights from enterprise customers to prioritize features and build composable architectures that integrate with existing tools. This role requires deep IAM expertise, enterprise awareness, strong architectural judgment, and security fundamentals. You will need 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers or Staff+ ICs. The estimated pay range is $250,000 - $300,000, and this role is eligible for Temporal's equity plan.

Requirements

• Deep IAM Expertise: Experience designing and building complex IAM systems, including user/account/resource data models, low-latency authorization systems, and API key management
• Enterprise Awareness: Ability to translate enterprise needs into a strategic roadmap. Experience working directly with large customers to inform priorities and validate approaches
• Strong Architectural Judgment: Track record of designing scalable and resilient systems, and making thoughtful tradeoffs around build vs buy, performance vs complexity, etc
• Security Fundamentals: Solid grounding in threat modeling, encryption, secrets management, and other core principles required to lead secure system design conversations
• Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with modern cloud IAM models (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP IAM) and how they influence multi-tenant platform design
• Leadership Experience: 7+ years of engineering leadership with at least 3 years managing managers or Staff+ ICs. Proven ability to build high-performing teams and mentor deeply technical engineers

Responsibilities

• Set Technical Vision: Define and own the long-term IAM architecture and strategy, aligned with product needs and security standards
• Lead Execution: Guide the IAM engineering team in delivering robust authentication and authorization systems, ensuring low latency and high reliability
• Engage with Enterprise Needs: Leverage insights from enterprise customers to prioritize features and deliver IAM capabilities that remove blockers to adoption and expansion
• Build with Ecosystem Awareness: Design composable architectures that integrate with, rather than rebuild, existing tools—leveraging OSS and commercial IAM solutions when appropriate
• Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with Product, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop and execute on roadmaps, system designs, and delivery plans
• Security-First Mindset: Ensure all IAM systems are built with strong security fundamentals, from threat modeling to the design of our authz data model, machine-based auth, and fine-grained access controls

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness