Director of Engineering, Cloud IdentityUnited States - Remote Opportunity

Director Of Engineering, Cloud Identity

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is foundational to delivering a secure, enterprise-ready developer platform. As Director of Engineering for IAM at Temporal, you will be responsible for defining and driving the strategy, architecture, and execution of our IAM systems across both the control and data planes. This is a high-impact leadership role that shapes how customers authenticate, authorize, and interact with Temporal across cloud environments. You'll collaborate closely with security, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, performant, and secure identity systems that support our largest customers and unlock future growth.

What You'll Do

• Set Technical Vision : Define and own the long-term IAM architecture and strategy, aligned with product needs and security standards.
• Lead Execution : Guide the IAM engineering team in delivering robust authentication and authorization systems, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
• Engage with Enterprise Needs : Leverage insights from enterprise customers to prioritize features and deliver IAM capabilities that remove blockers to adoption and expansion.
• Build with Ecosystem Awareness : Design composable architectures that integrate with, rather than rebuild, existing toolsleveraging OSS and commercial IAM solutions when appropriate.
• Cross-functional Leadership : Partner with Product, Security, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop and execute on roadmaps, system designs, and delivery plans.
• Security-First Mindset : Ensure all IAM systems are built with strong security fundamentals, from threat modeling to the design of our authz data model, machine-based auth, and fine-grained access controls.

What You'll Bring

Compensation

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.

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International Benefits

Additional Perks

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