Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager, Identity Platform based in Canada. This is an opportunity to lead the engineering strategy and development of a business-critical identity platform supporting authentication and access management across a broad SaaS product portfolio. You will guide the modernization of existing identity capabilities into scalable, independently deployable services while shaping secure, reliable platform architecture. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, working closely with Product, Architecture, and Security teams. You will lead and develop a distributed engineering team while influencing architecture, delivery, and production operations. With a focus on cloud-native technologies, platform reliability, and continuous improvement, you will help build the foundations for secure customer and partner access at scale. Accountabilities - Lead, coach, and develop an engineering team responsible for authentication, authorization, identity services, and platform integrations, including hiring, performance management, and career development. - Drive the modernization of the identity platform, migrating capabilities from a monolithic application into scalable, independently deployable services. - Guide architecture and technical decisions covering authentication, federated identity, session management, token issuance, and API access across multiple products. - Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to define priorities, coordinate technical dependencies, establish milestones, and manage delivery risks. - Oversee the development and operation of backend services using Go, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and related platform technologies. - Improve platform availability, security, observability, incident response, and deployment reliability through safe migration, testing, and rollback practices. - Support the evolution of identity capabilities, including OAuth clients, personal access tokens, delegated authorization, user provisioning, and multi-tenant access management.

- Establish engineering practices that strengthen delivery, testing, technical quality, and team effectiveness, including the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools. Requirements: - 8+ years of software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, backend platforms, or distributed systems. - At least 3 years of direct software engineering team management experience, including hiring, performance management, technical delivery, and career development. - Proven experience designing, developing, or operating production identity and access management systems using OAuth 2. 0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, or enterprise single sign-on (SSO). - Experience leading the modernization, migration, or re-architecture of production backend services or customer-facing platforms. - Experience guiding architecture and operating cloud-based distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including production reliability and incident management. - Familiarity with Go or similar backend programming languages and microservices architectures is an asset. - Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies such as Istio, or other cloud-native infrastructure is preferred. - Exposure to identity platforms such as Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID is an advantage. - Knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS identity, machine authentication, token lifecycle management, or fine-grained authorization is beneficial. - Experience managing distributed engineering teams across multiple locations or time zones is preferred. - Familiarity with phased migrations, feature-flagged deployments, reliability improvements, and AI-assisted development practices is an asset.