IBM · 7 hours ago
Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Vault
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelIBM Software is a leader in transforming client challenges into innovative solutions through AI-powered, cloud-native products. As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Agentic Vault initiative, you will lead a team focused on evolving a flagship security product and ensuring its scalability and security in managing Non-Human Identities.
Business DevelopmentBusiness Information SystemsCRMData ManagementFoundational AISoftware
Responsibilities
Drive the technical vision for how our core platform handles the explosion of Non-Human Identities (NHI), ensuring we stay ahead of the shift toward autonomous, agent-driven infrastructure
Mentor and scale a team of senior engineers focused on deep-tier infrastructure, fostering a culture of rigorous security design and high-velocity delivery
Lead teams based out of North America and India
Work closely with Product and Architecture to translate market needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable code
Ensure the product can support the rigorous uptime and performance requirements of automated systems that rely on real-time, delegated authentication
Lead the team in exploring and adopting emerging industry standards to ensure our identity services remain the universal authority across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
Qualification
Required
Engineering Leadership: Deep experience leading teams of 15+ engineers, with a track record of shipping complex, enterprise-grade infrastructure at scale
Modern Identity Standards: Deep fluency in the 'alphabet soup' of modern identity—specifically OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SPIFFE/SPIRE—and how they apply to machine-to-machine communication
Scale & Performance: Experience building distributed systems that handle high-volume, short-lived credentials where latency is a critical failure point
Security Mindset: A background in Zero Trust principles, with a specific focus on Just-in-Time (JIT) access and minimizing the blast radius of compromised workloads
Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation: Deep understanding of how automated agents interact with cloud infrastructure and the unique security challenges posed by autonomous actors
Extensibility: Experience building and maintaining plugin-based architectures or SDKs that allow for broad ecosystem integration
Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex security concepts to both technical contributors and executive leadership
Preferred
Identity Innovation: Experience contributing to or implementing emerging standards for Non-Human Identity (NHI) and machine-first authorization frameworks
Autonomous Systems Experience: Familiarity with the security challenges inherent in AI agent orchestration, LLM-based workflows, or autonomous robotic process automation (RPA)
Dynamic Governance: Background in building automated policy-as-code engines or real-time remediation systems that respond to behavioral anomalies
Hardware-Rooted Security: Conceptual or practical knowledge of hardware-backed trust anchors, such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) or Secure Enclaves, for workload attestation
Ecosystem Influence: Previous experience engaging with open-source security communities or standards bodies to help shape the future of digital identity
Company
IBM
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