IAM Engineer
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You will own and improve IAM tooling such as Okta and ConductorOne across the enterprise. You will implement RBAC, ABAC, and JIT access controls, align access with compliance frameworks, support cross-functional security projects, mentor junior engineers, and integrate identity systems during acquisitions.
Requirements
- 2+ years using Terraform for IAM infrastructure
- 2+ years managing an Okta tenant with 1,000+ users
- SSO
- MFA
- Policy control
- 2+ years writing operational scripts
- API data manipulation
- 2+ years working with IGA platforms
- Analytical skills
- Troubleshooting skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- M&A IAM experience
- IAM project lifecycle experience
- Access certification
- ABAC
- RBAC
- Zero Trust security architecture
Responsibilities
- Own IAM tooling
- Implement IAM tooling
- Improve IAM tooling
- Drive RBAC adoption
- Drive ABAC adoption
- Drive JIT access controls
- Partner with compliance teams
- Partner with audit teams
- Collaborate on cross-functional projects
- Mentor junior engineers
- Promote IAM best practices
- Integrate acquired identity systems
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)