Senior Engineer, Identity and Access Management

Who We Are:

Wayfair is a dynamic, cutting-edge technology company operating in the ecommerce space. We’re committed to providing our customers with a best-in-class experience for all things home. Our Identity & Access Engineering team is responsible for building solutions to effectively orchestrate user account lifecycles, ensure seamless authentication for internal and external applications, and facilitate user access requests. We lean heavily on automation to create scalable solutions that help the Security team fulfill its mission of security by design.

We’re currently looking for an innovative and creative Senior Engineer to help our team build new services, maintain and improve current solutions, and consult on broader issues of authentication and authorization. This role will also be responsible for helping grow our systems according to industry standards and best practices. On top of being an excellent developer, our ideal candidate is most effective in a fast-paced collaborative environment, delights in new problem areas, and is driven by curiosity and a creative spirit.

This position is a hybrid in-office role that works out of our Toronto HQ. Tuesday-Thursday will be working in office.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain Identity & Access tools and applications and work with cross-functional project teams to ensure that solutions are to specification and provide quantifiable value
• Support new and existing integrations with our core Identity platforms and services (SailPoint IdentityNow & Okta)
• Customization of Okta SSO SDKs for Mobile and Web applications leveraging
• Consult with broader Infrastructure team on topics of authentication and authorization, offering best practices and developing additional tooling to create improved experiences for developers that require authentication and authorization in their applications
• Support and suggest improvements across entire IAM technology stack, including technical flows that support lifecycle processes, data and access governance, alerting and monitoring, group orchestration, and event publishing
• Stay abreast of IAM industry best practices and new solutions (including open source and off the shelf products) to help improve our patterns and tech stack

What You'll Need: 

• 7+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains
• Strong Python application development skills, preferably experience developing and maintaining authentication and authorization for web applications
• Additional experience in at least one other core web language or common scripting language ( (e.g. Java, Javascript, Go, PowerShell, Python)
• Familiarity with a broad range of authentication and authorization best practices, use-cases, and patterns
• Solid grasp of and experience using the OAuth2.0 framework
• Thorough understanding of RESTful APIs and authenticating and authorizing against them
• Experience developing within Service Oriented Architecture parameters; comfort writing and deploying re-usable APIs (experience deploying to Kubernetes preferred)
• Comfortable with the subject matter of Identity & Access Management, e.g. common access control mechanisms (RBAC, ABAC, PBAC), PKI, User Lifecycle patterns, Principle of Least Privilege, LDAP, etc.
• Comfortable with DevOps principles and source code and configuration management practices using GIt
• Preferred skills include experience with IDaaS Solutions like Okta or Keycloak, and SailPoint
• Hands-On experience writing SQL queries
• Experience using Hashicorp stack (Terraform & Vault), Elastic Stack (Kibana & Elasticsearch), and Docker
• Any cybersecurity certifications: CISSP, CISM or equivalent
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data platforms (e.g Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub)
• Familiarity with open-source authorization tools such as Keycloak, Open Policy Agent, and Casbin
• Broad familiarity with a wide variety of IT and Infrastructural systems to help facilitate integrations. Examples: ServiceNow, Jira, Active Directory, Google Cloud Platform, Workday, etc