Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform based in Canada.

This is an opportunity to lead the engineering strategy and development of a business-critical identity platform supporting authentication and access management across a broad SaaS product portfolio. You will guide the modernization of existing identity capabilities into scalable, independently deployable services while shaping secure, reliable platform architecture. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, working closely with Product, Architecture, and Security teams. You will lead and develop a distributed engineering team while influencing architecture, delivery, and production operations. With a focus on cloud-native technologies, platform reliability, and continuous improvement, you will help build the foundations for secure customer and partner access at scale.

Accountabilities

• Lead, coach, and develop an engineering team responsible for authentication, authorization, identity services, and platform integrations, including hiring, performance management, and career development.

• Drive the modernization of the identity platform, migrating capabilities from a monolithic application into scalable, independently deployable services.

• Guide architecture and technical decisions covering authentication, federated identity, session management, token issuance, and API access across multiple products.

• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to define priorities, coordinate technical dependencies, establish milestones, and manage delivery risks.

• Oversee the development and operation of backend services using Go, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and related platform technologies.

• Improve platform availability, security, observability, incident response, and deployment reliability through safe migration, testing, and rollback practices.

• Support the evolution of identity capabilities, including OAuth clients, personal access tokens, delegated authorization, user provisioning, and multi-tenant access management.

• Establish engineering practices that strengthen delivery, testing, technical quality, and team effectiveness, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, backend platforms, or distributed systems.

• At least 3 years of direct software engineering team management experience, including hiring, performance management, technical delivery, and career development.

• Proven experience designing, developing, or operating production identity and access management systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, or enterprise single sign-on (SSO).

• Experience leading the modernization, migration, or re-architecture of production backend services or customer-facing platforms.

• Experience guiding architecture and operating cloud-based distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including production reliability and incident management.

• Familiarity with Go or similar backend programming languages and microservices architectures is an asset.

• Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies such as Istio, or other cloud-native infrastructure is preferred.

• Exposure to identity platforms such as Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID is an advantage.

• Knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS identity, machine authentication, token lifecycle management, or fine-grained authorization is beneficial.

• Experience managing distributed engineering teams across multiple locations or time zones is preferred.

• Familiarity with phased migrations, feature-flagged deployments, reliability improvements, and AI-assisted development practices is an asset.

Benefits:

• Annual base salary range of CAD $170,000–$220,000, depending on location, experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

• Full-time opportunity in a senior technical leadership role.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to lead the modernization of a business-critical identity platform.

• Exposure to cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and large-scale SaaS environments.

• Opportunities to develop engineering talent and influence platform architecture and technical strategy.

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