This is a technically engaged leadership role. You will own execution, team health, and organizational direction working with technical leadership on architecture, strategy and design decisions for services that must be highly available, low latency and resilient
You will also drive alignment across Security, Product, Compliance, and customer-facing teams to build durable platform capabilities that are adopted consistently across Lambda’s services
This role is ideal for an engineering leader who has built security-critical distributed systems and wants to shape the identity and access foundation of a fast-growing cloud platform
Build, lead, and grow the IAM engineering team. Hire exceptional engineers, develop technical leaders, and create a culture of ownership and high engineering standards
Work closely with the IAM technical leaders to define and deliver the long-term technical and architectural strategy for Lambda’s IAM platform
Build secure, scalable identity capabilities for people, services, and workloads from federation and SSO to service and workload identity
Evolve the authorization platform – RBAC, policy evaluation, and resource hierarchy with least privilege and auditability as defaults
Make IAM easy to adopt across every Lambda service through consistent APIs, resource and action models, and integration standards
Build and own Lambda’s Key Management Service, including customer-managed keys, HSM-backed protection, key lifecycle controls, and integration across compute, storage, and networking
Own the reliability, security, performance, and operations of mission-critical IAM services including observability, safe rollouts, incident response, and disaster recovery
Translate enterprise requirements into durable platform capabilities, and communicate strategy, delivery, risk, and operational health clearly to senior leadership
Balance the complexity and flexibility required for enterprise-grade IAM with simple, intuitive experiences for customers with varying levels of identity and access expertise