IAM Engineer

Valon is a Series C company focused on building AI-native operating systems for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. They are seeking a Senior or Staff Engineer to develop and manage authentication and user management systems, which are essential for supporting enterprise SaaS clients with scale and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build core identity systems: authentication, authorization, user provisioning, and access control
• Partner with product to define and implement user management features
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet enterprise client requirements
• Develop scalable, auditable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for regulated environments
• Own technical strategy and execution for identity and authentication—balancing long-term vision with near-term needs
• Establish and evolve IAM as a durable, user-facing capability, not just backend infrastructure
• Advocate for best practices in security, performance, and developer experience across the identity surface

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on identity, authentication, or access management systems
• Proven experience designing and scaling systems like SSO, OAuth2, SAML, RBAC/ABAC, or multi-tenant IAM platforms
• Strong systems design skills with an understanding of how to build secure, compliant, and resilient infrastructure
• Experience working in or building for regulated environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, government)
• A product mindset—you care about APIs, UX, and making complex systems usable and intuitive
• Experience working in SaaS environments, particularly those with multi-tenant architectures
• Bonus: prior work in high-scale or compliance-heavy companies
• Bonus: demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring experience, even in informal roles