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Remote identity access management jobs are open across cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare, and government contracting sectors at remote-first firms and distributed enterprise teams, from entry-level IAM analyst roles to senior IAM architect and engineer positions. Employers hiring remotely right now include Pinterest, Providence, and Fisher Investments. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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ABOUT GITHUB: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
LOCATIONS: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is looking for a Principal Engineering Manager to lead Identity & Access Management for GitHub’s workforce and production systems. Identity is foundational to GitHub’s regulatory commitments, cloud strategy, internal security model, and the trust boundaries that protect access to critical infrastructure. Getting it right is one of the highest-leverage things we can do to secure GitHub at scale.
You will lead the team responsible for GitHub’s IAM platform across identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, identity federation, workforce identity providers, and secured administrative access patterns. These systems sit on the critical path for Hubber productivity and production security, and they must operate with high reliability, strong usability, and clear security guarantees.
This role requires both deep technical judgment and strong organizational leadership. You will partner across Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams to define strategy, build paved paths, improve operational maturity, and make least-privilege and just-in-time access the default across GitHub. You will lead engineers, create clarity in ambiguous spaces, and help the team deliver durable systems rather than one-off policy-driven solutions.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the identity foundation that protects GitHub’s internal systems today while preparing the company for a future where access decisions must be increasingly automated, policy-driven, and consumable by both humans and agents.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering strategy and technical roadmap for GitHub’s Identity & Access Management service area, spanning identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, identity federation, and workforce identity providers.
- Build and support high-performing engineering teams by coaching engineers, managing performance, growing technical leadership, and fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, operational excellence, and learning.
- Drive multi-quarter IAM platform evolution, including programs such as identity provider migrations, privileged access maturation, least-privilege access models, access automation, and identity platform consolidation.
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, IT, Compliance, Legal, and product engineering teams to define requirements, resolve dependencies, and ensure IAM systems meet GitHub’s security, regulatory, reliability, and usability needs.
- Make secure access the easiest path by investing in paved paths, automation, APIs, and agent-consumable interfaces rather than relying on manual processes or policy memos.
- Oversee reliability, supportability, and operational maturity for Tier-0 IAM services, including incident response, postmortems, observability, deployment safety, rollback strategies, and systemic reduction of operational toil.
- Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, observable systems that support least privilege, just-in-time access, strong authentication, authorization, auditability, and identity governance at GitHub scale.
- Create clarity across ambiguous security and infrastructure programs, balancing long-term correctness with pragmatic delivery, phased cutovers, parity validation, and safe migration strategies.
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, quality practices, automation, and mentorship across the IAM organization and adjacent engineering teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
- 11+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- OR PhD Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years people management experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, access management, infrastructure security, internal developer platforms, or other Tier-0 production services.
- Experience with identity directories and providers such as Okta, Entra ID/Azure AD, or similar workforce identity platforms.
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and access-control patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and LDAP.
- Experience leading large-scale identity platform migrations or consolidations, including parity validation, device trust, phased cutovers, rollback strategies, and dependent-team coordination.
- Strong understanding of privileged access management, least privilege, just-in-time access, entitlement governance, access reviews, auditability, and operating IAM or security-critical services in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth, high-ambiguity, or security-sensitive environments while partnering across Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver durable platform outcomes, including systems and APIs for programmatic or AI-agent consumption.
COMPENSATION RANGE: The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GITHUB LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
WHO WE ARE: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO STATEMENT: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
ABOUT GITHUB: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
LOCATIONS: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub is looking for a Principal Engineering Manager to lead Identity & Access Management for GitHub’s workforce and production systems. Identity is foundational to GitHub’s regulatory commitments, cloud strategy, internal security model, and the trust boundaries that protect access to critical infrastructure. Getting it right is one of the highest-leverage things we can do to secure GitHub at scale.
You will lead the team responsible for GitHub’s IAM platform across identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, identity federation, workforce identity providers, and secured administrative access patterns. These systems sit on the critical path for Hubber productivity and production security, and they must operate with high reliability, strong usability, and clear security guarantees.
This role requires both deep technical judgment and strong organizational leadership. You will partner across Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams to define strategy, build paved paths, improve operational maturity, and make least-privilege and just-in-time access the default across GitHub. You will lead engineers, create clarity in ambiguous spaces, and help the team deliver durable systems rather than one-off policy-driven solutions.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the identity foundation that protects GitHub’s internal systems today while preparing the company for a future where access decisions must be increasingly automated, policy-driven, and consumable by both humans and agents.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the engineering strategy and technical roadmap for GitHub’s Identity & Access Management service area, spanning identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, identity federation, and workforce identity providers.
- Build and support high-performing engineering teams by coaching engineers, managing performance, growing technical leadership, and fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, operational excellence, and learning.
- Drive multi-quarter IAM platform evolution, including programs such as identity provider migrations, privileged access maturation, least-privilege access models, access automation, and identity platform consolidation.
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, IT, Compliance, Legal, and product engineering teams to define requirements, resolve dependencies, and ensure IAM systems meet GitHub’s security, regulatory, reliability, and usability needs.
- Make secure access the easiest path by investing in paved paths, automation, APIs, and agent-consumable interfaces rather than relying on manual processes or policy memos.
- Oversee reliability, supportability, and operational maturity for Tier-0 IAM services, including incident response, postmortems, observability, deployment safety, rollback strategies, and systemic reduction of operational toil.
- Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, observable systems that support least privilege, just-in-time access, strong authentication, authorization, auditability, and identity governance at GitHub scale.
- Create clarity across ambiguous security and infrastructure programs, balancing long-term correctness with pragmatic delivery, phased cutovers, parity validation, and safe migration strategies.
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, quality practices, automation, and mentorship across the IAM organization and adjacent engineering teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
- 11+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- OR PhD Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years people management experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, access management, infrastructure security, internal developer platforms, or other Tier-0 production services.
- Experience with identity directories and providers such as Okta, Entra ID/Azure AD, or similar workforce identity platforms.
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and access-control patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and LDAP.
- Experience leading large-scale identity platform migrations or consolidations, including parity validation, device trust, phased cutovers, rollback strategies, and dependent-team coordination.
- Strong understanding of privileged access management, least privilege, just-in-time access, entitlement governance, access reviews, auditability, and operating IAM or security-critical services in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth, high-ambiguity, or security-sensitive environments while partnering across Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver durable platform outcomes, including systems and APIs for programmatic or AI-agent consumption.
COMPENSATION RANGE: The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GITHUB LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
WHO WE ARE: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO STATEMENT: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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Who's Hiring
- Pinterest3
- Providence2
- Fisher Investments2
- World Wide Technology2
- GitHub1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software9
- Agriculture & Farming2
- Insurance1
- Telecommunications1
- Electronics & Hardware1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote identity access management jobs.
- Experience with IAM platforms such as SailPoint, Okta, CyberArk, or Microsoft Entra
- Knowledge of role-based access control, least-privilege principles, and access governance frameworks
- Familiarity with identity governance and administration processes including access certifications and provisioning
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
- Professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, or a vendor-specific credential in a major IAM platform
- Experience supporting compliance requirements under SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or FedRAMP standards
Tips for Your Remote Identity Access Management Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote identity access management openings from across the U.S. in one place. Check it regularly and apply as soon as a role matches your platform experience, since remote IAM postings draw applicants quickly from a nationwide pool.
Document your async security workflow experience
Remote IAM teams communicate primarily through tickets, documentation, and written runbooks. Highlight examples of access reviews, provisioning workflows, or incident responses you handled asynchronously, and mention any remote collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, or ServiceNow you used.
Lead with specific platform certifications
Remote employers filter IAM candidates by platform quickly. List your Okta, SailPoint, CyberArk, Microsoft Entra, or Ping Identity certifications near the top of your resume so hiring managers see your stack before your job titles.
Prepare for cloud-first technical screenings
Most remote IAM interviews include scenario questions on single sign-on, role-based access control, and zero-trust architecture in cloud environments. Practice walking through a full identity lifecycle, from provisioning to deprovisioning, out loud so your reasoning is clear on a video call.
Show compliance and audit readiness in your resume
Remote IAM roles in financial services, healthcare, and government contracting require familiarity with SOX, HIPAA, or FedRAMP access control requirements. Call out specific audits you supported or compliance frameworks you worked within to stand out to employers in regulated industries.
Remote Identity Access Management Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote identity access management job?
Target companies with distributed security teams, which are common in cloud-native software firms, managed security service providers, and financial technology companies. Remote IAM employers screen heavily for hands-on experience with identity platforms like Okta, SailPoint, or Microsoft Entra, strong written communication for async collaboration, and the ability to manage access reviews and provisioning workflows independently without on-site supervision. Certifications like CIAM or CISSP strengthen your candidacy noticeably.
Which companies hire remote identity access managements?
Remote identity access management roles are posted by Pinterest, Providence, and Fisher Investments and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, large enterprises with distributed IT operations, and managed security providers across cloud, financial services, and healthcare sectors.
Can you get a remote identity access management job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level IAM roles are competitive because employers expect you to troubleshoot access issues and manage provisioning workflows with minimal hand-holding from day one. Cloud-native startups and managed service providers are the most open to junior candidates. Showing a home lab, a completed IAM platform certification, or documented volunteer IT work can substitute meaningfully for paid experience.
Do you need a degree for remote identity access management jobs?
Not always. Many remote IAM employers prioritize demonstrated platform skills and certifications over a four-year degree, particularly for analyst and engineer roles. Proficiency with identity governance tools, directory services, and authentication protocols, backed by credentials like CompTIA Security+, Okta Certified Professional, or SailPoint IdentityIQ certifications, often carries more weight than the degree field itself.
Which industries hire the most remote identity access managements?
Most remote identity access management openings sit in Technology & Software, Agriculture & Farming, and Insurance, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams managing sensitive data and regulatory compliance, making remote IAM specialists a core part of their security infrastructure regardless of office location.
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