Brex
Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
New York, New York, United States · Senior
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$1,461 more — $193,461 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,461 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
Responsibilities
- The Identity and Access Management team builds and maintains secure, user-friendly authentication and authorization systems that protect users, safeguard company assets, and provide a seamless access experience for developers.
- The team owns critical platform capabilities including login methods, step-up authentication, our custom authorization platform, account delegation flows like Copilot, Pro Access login, embedded partnerships authentication, and core vendor integrations such as Okta and Oso.
- You will scope and drive projects with clear impact, work cross-functionally with the broader engineering organization, help define the team's technical quality, and help evolve the identity platform as Brex invests in signed identity propagation, delegated and agent identity, fine-grained authorization, stronger auditability, and enterprise-ready customer authentication experiences.
- Design, build, and operate backend systems and APIs for authentication, authorization, identity context, and audit-related workflows.
- Lead engineers on initiatives end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and operational support.
- Build and extend authorization systems that support custom roles, resource-aware access control, and secure defaults for product teams.
- Help create durable, identity-aware audit trails and attribution for user, service, delegated, and agent-driven actions.
- Partner closely with engineers across Brex to make IAM integrations secure by default and easier to adopt through clear patterns, tooling, and shared libraries.
- Mentor engineers on the team to deliver high-quality code and produce operational improvements that raise the bar for reliability and maintainability across the team's systems.
- Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
Requirements
- Experience leading complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
- Having a strong product and engineering judgment and can balance security, usability, and developer experience.
- Experience working on identity and access management, authentication, authorization, or audit systems in a production environment.
- Hands-on experience with Okta, Oso, SSO, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, passkeys, or WebAuthn.
Skills
- Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.
- Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
- Engineering at Brex
- It's an environment where engineering is a craft and builders grow by solving meaningful technical problems.
Compensation
- The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000.
- However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity.
- Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
- As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Company info
- Brex's AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most.
- As a Senior Software Engineer on IAM, you will lead projects and initiatives to improve the security, reliability, and developer experience of our authentication, authorization, and identity platforms for customers, partners, and internal systems.
- We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home.
This listing is sourced directly from Brex's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.