Iam Engineer Jobs in California
Iam Engineer jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in enterprise technology, financial services, healthcare IT, and defense contracting, with openings at every level from junior analyst through principal architect. The largest hiring centers are the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego, where established employers such as Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente, and Northrop Grumman maintain significant IAM programs. The most in-demand specialties are identity governance and administration, privileged access management, and cloud identity platforms such as Okta, SailPoint, and Azure Active Directory. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Location
Irvine, California
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Technology and InnovationProduct Integrity
Compensation
- $149.8K – $205.9K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • This role has an annual target bonus of 10%
The posted salary represents the lowest and highest ranges RV Tech reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position. Any posted salary range pertains only to the estimated starting pay for the role. Actual starting pay is based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, skillset, qualifications, specific competencies, relevant education, and location.
About Us
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.
The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.
Role Summary
The Product Security team develops and implements security protections into the vehicle and its supporting infrastructure. We cover the full chain of security: from defining requirements, planning both software and hardware security, to development, deployment and operationalization of the protections in production.
As a Senior IAM Engineer, you will own core components of the identity and authorization platform that vehicles, cloud services, and internal teams depend on. This includes our fine-grained authorization service, OAuth2/OIDC identity stack, workload identity for cloud and on-vehicle workloads, and the authorization path for vehicle operations such as remote commands and OTA. You will drive this platform from requirements to implementation and operationalization. This role is cross functional across many aspects of RVT including vehicle software and enterprise teams.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate security-critical identity and authorization services (authorization/ACL service, OAuth2/OIDC provider, workload identity, key distribution) in Go on Kubernetes/AWS.
Own the authorization data model: design and evolve the SpiceDB schema (resource hierarchies, roles/permissions) to enable business needs and provide APIs, SDKs, and tooling for teams to manage their permissions.
Demonstrate cloud native best practices through code reviews, mentorship, and partnership with other cloud first teams.
Participate in team incident response and on call processes.
Partner with the PKI team and service owners to adopt mTLS and workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE) as the authentication layer for the authorization platform, and guide teams on integrating certificate-based identity with SpiceDB-backed permissions
Mitigate vulnerabilities found or reported by internal and external parties by aligning with company’s goals and objectives.
Implement cybersecurity protections to comply with regulations and industry standards.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent experience; 5+ years building and operating production backend services.
Strong Go (or comparable) experience building gRPC/REST services, including protobuf/API design and client SDKs.
Hands-on experience with modern identity and authorization: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and fine-grained/relationship-based authorization (e.g. SpiceDB/Zanzibar, OPA, Cedar).
Experience running production services on Kubernetes and AWS (Helm/ArgoCD, EKS, IAM, KMS, VPC networking) with a SQL datastore (Postgres/CockroachDB).
Experience working cross functionally with heterogenous engineering teams to ensure the reliability of security critical services.
Experience delivering platform capabilities to heterogeneous internal engineering teams and leading projects from planning through completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
SPIFFE/SPIRE or other workload-identity systems; PKCS#11 / secure-element integration.
Ory Hydra/Kratos or similar identity providers.
Event streaming (Kafka, NATS), Bazel monorepos.
Contributions to ADRs or security architecture documentation.
Total Rewards
We build the exceptional — and we believe the people doing that work should be rewarded accordingly. In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program.
Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements.
In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full-time employees — including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs. Offerings vary by country. Learn more about our global benefit programs.
External candidates can apply for this role through the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers).
Equal Opportunity
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies” may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) record keeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies affiliates; and (iii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies’ service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
If you provide a mobile telephone number as part of your application or during the recruitment process, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use that number to contact you via SMS text message for recruitment-related purposes, including scheduling, logistics, and status updates. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of SMS communications at any time by replying STOP to any text message you receive from us. Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of applying for or being considered for employment.
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Please note this job posting represents an open, active vacancy. Additionally, we are not currently accepting applications from third party application services.
Compensation Range: $149.8K - $205.9KLocation
Irvine, California
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Technology and InnovationProduct Integrity
Compensation
- $149.8K – $205.9K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • This role has an annual target bonus of 10%
The posted salary represents the lowest and highest ranges RV Tech reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position. Any posted salary range pertains only to the estimated starting pay for the role. Actual starting pay is based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, skillset, qualifications, specific competencies, relevant education, and location.
About Us
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders with a clear vision for automotive’s next chapter. From operating systems to zonal controllers to cloud and connectivity solutions, we’re addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology that will set the standards for software-defined vehicles around the world.
The road to the future is uncharted. By combining our expertise across connectivity, AI, security and more, we’ll map a new way forward. Working together, we’ll create a future that’s more connected, more intelligent, more sustainable for everyone.
Role Summary
The Product Security team develops and implements security protections into the vehicle and its supporting infrastructure. We cover the full chain of security: from defining requirements, planning both software and hardware security, to development, deployment and operationalization of the protections in production.
As a Senior IAM Engineer, you will own core components of the identity and authorization platform that vehicles, cloud services, and internal teams depend on. This includes our fine-grained authorization service, OAuth2/OIDC identity stack, workload identity for cloud and on-vehicle workloads, and the authorization path for vehicle operations such as remote commands and OTA. You will drive this platform from requirements to implementation and operationalization. This role is cross functional across many aspects of RVT including vehicle software and enterprise teams.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate security-critical identity and authorization services (authorization/ACL service, OAuth2/OIDC provider, workload identity, key distribution) in Go on Kubernetes/AWS.
Own the authorization data model: design and evolve the SpiceDB schema (resource hierarchies, roles/permissions) to enable business needs and provide APIs, SDKs, and tooling for teams to manage their permissions.
Demonstrate cloud native best practices through code reviews, mentorship, and partnership with other cloud first teams.
Participate in team incident response and on call processes.
Partner with the PKI team and service owners to adopt mTLS and workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE) as the authentication layer for the authorization platform, and guide teams on integrating certificate-based identity with SpiceDB-backed permissions
Mitigate vulnerabilities found or reported by internal and external parties by aligning with company’s goals and objectives.
Implement cybersecurity protections to comply with regulations and industry standards.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent experience; 5+ years building and operating production backend services.
Strong Go (or comparable) experience building gRPC/REST services, including protobuf/API design and client SDKs.
Hands-on experience with modern identity and authorization: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and fine-grained/relationship-based authorization (e.g. SpiceDB/Zanzibar, OPA, Cedar).
Experience running production services on Kubernetes and AWS (Helm/ArgoCD, EKS, IAM, KMS, VPC networking) with a SQL datastore (Postgres/CockroachDB).
Experience working cross functionally with heterogenous engineering teams to ensure the reliability of security critical services.
Experience delivering platform capabilities to heterogeneous internal engineering teams and leading projects from planning through completion.
Preferred Qualifications:
SPIFFE/SPIRE or other workload-identity systems; PKCS#11 / secure-element integration.
Ory Hydra/Kratos or similar identity providers.
Event streaming (Kafka, NATS), Bazel monorepos.
Contributions to ADRs or security architecture documentation.
Total Rewards
We build the exceptional — and we believe the people doing that work should be rewarded accordingly. In addition to a competitive base salary, full-time positions may be is eligible to participate in our annual company performance bonus program.
Payments are discretionary and not guaranteed; actual amounts depend on company results and the terms of the plan in effect, and require active employment at the time of payout. This role is also eligible for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and the terms of our equity incentive plans, including applicable vesting requirements.
In addition to our compensation programs, we invest in our people with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, wellbeing, and financial future for full-time employees — including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs. Offerings vary by country. Learn more about our global benefit programs.
External candidates can apply for this role through the Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers).
Equal Opportunity
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are also committed to ensuring compliance with all applicable fair employment practice laws regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at candidateaccommodations@rivian.com.
Candidate Data Privacy
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies” may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) record keeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies affiliates; and (iii) Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies’ service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
If you provide a mobile telephone number as part of your application or during the recruitment process, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies may use that number to contact you via SMS text message for recruitment-related purposes, including scheduling, logistics, and status updates. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of SMS communications at any time by replying STOP to any text message you receive from us. Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of applying for or being considered for employment.
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Please note this job posting represents an open, active vacancy. Additionally, we are not currently accepting applications from third party application services.
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in iam engineer jobs across California.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as Okta, SailPoint, or Azure AD
- Strong understanding of identity governance, access certification, and role-based access control
- Experience integrating IAM solutions with cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Familiarity with PAM tools such as CyberArk or BeyondTrust in large enterprise environments
- Knowledge of relevant compliance frameworks including SOX, HIPAA, and CCPA as applied in California
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related technical field
Iam Engineer Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a iam engineer in California?
Most iam engineer roles in California are reached through a combination of a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or cybersecurity and hands-on experience with enterprise identity platforms. There is no California state license required, but industry certifications such as the Certified Identity and Access Manager credential and vendor-specific certifications from Okta, SailPoint, or Microsoft strengthen applications considerably. Many California employers, particularly in financial services and healthcare, also value experience with CCPA compliance as part of an IAM background.
Which companies hire iam engineers in California?
Employers hiring iam engineers in California right now include Roblox, University of California, Riverside, and CRUSOE, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. California's concentration of large technology firms, health systems, and defense contractors means IAM roles appear across a particularly wide range of industries compared to most other states.
Which California cities have the most iam engineer jobs?
The cities with the most iam engineer openings in California are San Francisco, Riverside, and San Mateo. The Bay Area leads because it is home to the headquarters and major engineering campuses of some of the largest enterprise software and cloud companies in the world, while Los Angeles and San Diego draw demand from healthcare networks, financial institutions, and defense contractors with significant IAM infrastructure needs.
Are there remote iam engineer jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields, because iam engineering is largely configuration, integration, and policy work that can be performed entirely over secure remote access. About 50% of iam engineer openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting strong adoption across the technology and financial services sectors. Identity governance, access certification reviews, and cloud identity platform work are the sub-areas most commonly offered on a fully remote basis.
How can I get hired as a iam engineer in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a help desk or IT support role at a large California employer, which provides direct exposure to Active Directory, user provisioning, and access request workflows that form the foundation of IAM work. University of California and California State University graduates often find associate identity analyst or IT security analyst roles at health systems such as Sutter Health or financial institutions such as Wells Fargo that serve as structured entry points. Completing a vendor-specific Okta or Microsoft certification and building a lab environment demonstrating SailPoint or Azure AD configuration gives candidates without enterprise experience a concrete portfolio to show.
Where can I find and apply to iam engineer jobs in California?
You can find and apply to iam engineer jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings across industries and experience levels. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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