Remote Identity And Access Management Iam Jobs
Remote Identity And Access Management Iam jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed security teams hiring for roles in sectors including financial services, healthcare technology, and enterprise software. Employers hiring remotely right now include World Wide Technology, DUIT, and FICO. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About Backblaze
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customersuccess with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
Role Overview
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer designs, implements, and operates identity and access capabilities for human users, non-human identities, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. The role focuses on the subject side of access control—identity, authentication, roles, groups, entitlements, and privileges—with an emphasis on least privilege, separation of duties, strong authentication, automated lifecycle management, and short-lived credentials.
The engineer partners with others across the organization to ensure applications, infrastructure, and services appropriately mediate access, separate security domains, minimize unnecessary sharing, and limit common mechanisms that could increase privilege or blast radius.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and operate authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM, conditional access, policy-based authorization, just-in-time access, continuous verification, and privileged-access capabilities.
- Engineer roles, groups, entitlements, and privilege assignments around least privilege and separation of duties.
- Automate identity provisioning, access reviews, privilege changes, revocation, and deprovisioning.
- Implement phishing-resistant MFA, cryptographically bound authentication, and strong identity assurance across enrollment, authentication, federation, and recovery.
- Govern service accounts, machine and device identities, workloads, automated processes, APIs, and AI-agent identities.
- Implement short-lived workload and agent identities using federation, certificates, and modern workload-identity approaches while reducing reliance on persistent secrets.
- Partner with architects, engineers, and resource owners to ensure access is efficiently mediated and designs minimize excessive privilege, unnecessary sharing, and cross-domain exposure.
- Monitor identity posture and partner with Security Operations to investigate identity threats and rapidly revoke compromised access.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience engineering enterprise IAM systems and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, role/group design, separation of duties, and least privilege.
- Knowledge of phishing-resistant MFA, cryptographic authentication, identity proofing, federation, and modern identity assurance practices.
- Experience managing human and non-human identities, including service, machine, workload, or device identities.
- Experience automating identity processes using APIs, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Understanding of PKI, secrets management, short-lived credentials, workload identity federation, and technologies such as OIDC, OAuth, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Ability to reason about identity and authorization across distributed systems and collaborate with architects and engineers on secure access design.
Backblaze Perks:
- Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
- Competitive compensation and 401K
- RSU grants for full-time employees
- ESPP program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Maternity & paternity leave
- MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
- Childcare bonus (human children only)
- Fertility treatment and support
- Learning & development program
- Commuter benefits
- Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is $155,000 - $195,000
At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.
About Backblaze
Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customersuccess with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands. Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100m in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
Role Overview
The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer designs, implements, and operates identity and access capabilities for human users, non-human identities, workloads, devices, services, and AI agents. The role focuses on the subject side of access control—identity, authentication, roles, groups, entitlements, and privileges—with an emphasis on least privilege, separation of duties, strong authentication, automated lifecycle management, and short-lived credentials.
The engineer partners with others across the organization to ensure applications, infrastructure, and services appropriately mediate access, separate security domains, minimize unnecessary sharing, and limit common mechanisms that could increase privilege or blast radius.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and operate authentication, authorization, federation, SSO, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PAM, conditional access, policy-based authorization, just-in-time access, continuous verification, and privileged-access capabilities.
- Engineer roles, groups, entitlements, and privilege assignments around least privilege and separation of duties.
- Automate identity provisioning, access reviews, privilege changes, revocation, and deprovisioning.
- Implement phishing-resistant MFA, cryptographically bound authentication, and strong identity assurance across enrollment, authentication, federation, and recovery.
- Govern service accounts, machine and device identities, workloads, automated processes, APIs, and AI-agent identities.
- Implement short-lived workload and agent identities using federation, certificates, and modern workload-identity approaches while reducing reliance on persistent secrets.
- Partner with architects, engineers, and resource owners to ensure access is efficiently mediated and designs minimize excessive privilege, unnecessary sharing, and cross-domain exposure.
- Monitor identity posture and partner with Security Operations to investigate identity threats and rapidly revoke compromised access.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience engineering enterprise IAM systems and integrations.
- Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, role/group design, separation of duties, and least privilege.
- Knowledge of phishing-resistant MFA, cryptographic authentication, identity proofing, federation, and modern identity assurance practices.
- Experience managing human and non-human identities, including service, machine, workload, or device identities.
- Experience automating identity processes using APIs, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Understanding of PKI, secrets management, short-lived credentials, workload identity federation, and technologies such as OIDC, OAuth, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Ability to reason about identity and authorization across distributed systems and collaborate with architects and engineers on secure access design.
Backblaze Perks:
- Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
- Competitive compensation and 401K
- RSU grants for full-time employees
- ESPP program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Maternity & paternity leave
- MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
- Childcare bonus (human children only)
- Fertility treatment and support
- Learning & development program
- Commuter benefits
- Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is $155,000 - $195,000
At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries, but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Backblaze Employee Privacy Notice.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote identity and access management iam jobs.
- Experience with identity governance platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, or CyberArk
- Proficiency with directory services including Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
- Familiarity with single sign-on and multi-factor authentication protocols like SAML, OAuth, and OIDC
- Knowledge of least-privilege access principles and role-based access control design
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or PCI-DSS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Identity And Access Management Iam Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote identity and access management iam openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly. Remote postings fill fast, so checking frequently and applying as soon as a strong fit appears gives you a real advantage.
Show your IAM tool depth upfront
Remote hiring managers can't watch you work, so your resume and cover letter need to name the specific platforms you've administered, such as Okta, Azure Active Directory, SailPoint, or Ping Identity, and describe what you actually configured or automated in each environment.
Demonstrate async communication skills clearly
Remote identity and access management iam work requires documenting access decisions, writing policy updates, and escalating security issues in writing without real-time back-and-forth. Highlight any experience writing access control policies, incident reports, or runbooks that non-technical stakeholders could follow independently.
Prepare for remote security interview scenarios
Remote identity and access management iam interviews often include live walkthroughs of how you'd investigate a suspicious access event or design a least-privilege policy for a distributed team. Practice explaining your decision-making process verbally and concisely, since remote panels move faster without in-person whiteboarding.
Remote Identity And Access Management Iam Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote identity and access management iam job?
Start by targeting remote-first technology companies and distributed security teams, which hire identity and access management iams more consistently for remote roles than traditional on-site organizations. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and hands-on experience with tools like Okta, Azure AD, SailPoint, or CyberArk. Candidates who can document their IAM implementations clearly, work across time zones without hand-holding, and explain complex access control decisions in writing have a strong edge.
Which companies hire remote identity and access management iams?
Remote identity and access management iam roles are posted by World Wide Technology, DUIT, and FICO and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These include remote-first technology firms, cloud-native software companies, and distributed teams in financial services and healthcare that manage access governance across global workforces.
Can you get a remote identity and access management iam job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level identity and access management iam roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot access issues independently from day one. Cloud providers like Microsoft and AWS offer free IAM certification paths that demonstrate hands-on knowledge without formal job history. Remote-first SaaS startups and managed security service providers are more open to entry-level remote candidates who can show lab work, home lab setups, or coursework covering directory services and role-based access control.
Do you need a degree for remote identity and access management iam jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh certifications and demonstrated skills over a formal degree for identity and access management iam roles. Credentials like CompTIA Security+, Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM), or platform-specific certifications from Okta or Microsoft carry real weight. Remote hiring managers care more about whether you can configure provisioning workflows, manage access reviews, and communicate policy decisions in writing than whether you have a four-year degree.
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