Manager, Engineering

As the Engineering Manager for the Core Identity Systems team, you will lead the engineering efforts to design, build, launch and operate core Identity services. These are the back-end services that manage user accounts and process authentication requests on behalf of users and machines. You will take the team on a mission to evolve the architecture of the Identity services as we scale our platform to meet the growing demons of our users and customers.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

• Rally your team to meet the objectives, celebrate team victories, and continuously seek to learn and improve.
• Work closely with Product Management, Design, and Principal engineers Develop a strategy and an engineering roadmap to ensure systems meet the reliability, performance, and latency goals
• Lead multiple project teams and collaborate with peers in security, platform, compliance, and product engineering teams
• Cultivate excellence in the reliability, scalability, security, and craft of the software your team builds
• Contribute to company-wide initiatives led by our engineering management, recruitment, and people teams
• Take a pragmatic approach to solving business problems and balancing them with the career aspirations of the team
• Translate vision to execution for key initiatives in partnership with senior leadership
• Engage on topics such as performance, security, compliance and user interactions in complex systems

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Have at least 2+ years of experience leading high-performing teams
• Have a strong technical background (8+ years) in relevant engineering domains
• Have a demonstrated working knowledge of distributed systems concepts
• Have experience developing applications and services in a public cloud infrastructure AWS or Azure
• Have strong knowledge of reliability concepts and have hands-on experience owning a critical SLO.
• Been responsible for critical production facing applications or services
• Have strong engineering experience and passion for continuous learning
• Worked to operationalize complex software at scale

Preferred technical and professional experience

• You have experience in an Identity domain or working in a platform engineering team
• You have previous experience with Incident management and on-call practices
• You have operated high scale SaaS offerings with a microservice architecture written in Golang
• You have experience with infrastructure-as-a-service

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA

Job ID: IBM-47943

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-21T11:46:30