Staff Engineer, Identity and Access Management

3 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada Recursion Full time
Unlock the Future of TechBio

At Recursion, we're decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. As a Staff Engineer, Identity and Access Management, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the security and integrity of our innovative approach.

Your Impact
  • Develop and implement robust identity and access management strategies to safeguard our cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement secure identity governance and access management solutions.
  • Architect and design cloud-based identity governance, access management, and cloud directory solutions to accelerate key business outcomes.
  • Implement RBAC/ABAC based IAM workflows for onboarding and ongoing identity lifecycle management.
  • Act as a key technical and strategic advisor for security, IT, and development teams to ensure IAM principles are integrated into broader security architecture.
  • Establish well-defined KPIs, KCIs, and KRIs that provide visibility into IAM control effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance by partnering with other teams to design IAM solutions that meet standards for SOX, GxP, etc.
The Team You'll Join

You'll be part of a growing Information Security team at Recursion, focused on enabling our mission to decode biology by providing world-class secure technology services. You'll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to ensure that IAM systems support the organization's broader business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security.

The Experience You'll Need
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
  • A minimum of 7 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains.
  • Deep understanding of security principles and proven track record of successfully leading large-scale IAM projects from strategy to execution, particularly within cloud-first and hybrid environments.
  • Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python) as they relate to IAM products.
  • Expert level experience in one or more of the leading Enterprise Identity Administration & Governance solutions.
  • Expert level experience in Adaptive Authentication, OAuth, OpenID, SAML etc.
  • Expert level experience with the identity stack like Enterprise Active Directory as well as experience working with IAM products in the cloud like Okta, AWS, Azure AD, Duo or equivalent.
  • Expert level experience with privileged access management solutions (e.g., Delinea, CyberArk).
  • Knowledge of operating systems (UNIX/Linux, macOS, Windows) and of database management systems (Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of driving security initiatives and influencing change across multiple teams and disciplines.
  • A continuous improvement mindset, staying up to date with the latest IAM trends and technologies to drive innovation within the organization.
  • Experience with risk management, ensuring that IAM solutions are aligned with organizational risk tolerance and compliance requirements.
  • Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, OSCP, GWAPT) are highly desirable.
The Values That We Hope You Share
  • We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
  • We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
  • We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover.
  • Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
  • We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.
More About Recursion

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.

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