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# Staff Software Engineer - IAM, Cloud Platform

- **Company:** IonQ, Inc.
- **Location:** Bothell, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $174,520.0 - $228,492.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based Access Control, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Software Engineering, Google Cloud, System Availability, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Microservices
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0cbe0b71-60a0-48b9-a122-5d06c82cc180

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
 * 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a history of technical leadership and shipping large-scale, mission-critical systems
 * Deep, expert-level knowledge (4+ years) on designing, building, and operating IAM and RBAC systems in production environments at scale
 * Past experience implementing SAML 2.0 in production
 * Proven experience designing and leading large-scale, cross-team technical projects from inception to completion, especially track record of leading cross-team initiatives related to identity, access control, or security platforms
 * Solid understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and data consistency patterns.
 * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated through a portfolio of technical design documents, architectural diagrams, or public presentations
 * Expertise programming backends in Go or JavaScript
 * A strong sense of ownership and the ability to navigate ambiguity to drive complex projects forward with a high degree of autonomy
 * A practice of using AI in day to day coding

You'd be a great fit with:

 * 10+ years software developer experience
 * 5+ years experience writing microservices in a kubernetes environment
 * Past experience with Google Cloud Platform
 * Experience evolving or migrating legacy authentication/authorization systems to modern, scalable architectures
 * Deep familiarity with enterprise security requirements, including least privilege, auditability, and compliance constraints
 * Experience operating IAM systems that support high availability, low latency, and strict reliability SLOs
 * Active participation in the broader tech community (e.g., open-source contributions, conference talks)
 * Regular use of fully agent-based augmented coding

## Description

* Own the technical vision and architecture for IAM and RBAC systems across the entire platform for multiple products. Design, evolve, and standardize scalable authorization models (RBAC, ABAC, policy-based access) that support complex enterprise use cases
 * Drive cross-team initiatives that impact authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle management.
 * Make high-impact architectural decisions around:

 * Role modeling and permission hierarchies
 * Identity propagation and service-to-service authorization

Act as the final technical authority on IAM/RBAC design reviews and critical security decisions.

Ensure IAM and RBAC systems meet high availability, performance, and reliability requirements

Establish operational standards for: Role changes and permission rollout

Emergency access and break-glass procedures


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