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Every organization runs on dozens-sometimes hundreds-of systems that need to answer the same basic question: who can do what, when, and why?\nThe old approach doesn’t hold up. It’s either IT teams duct-taping systems together, or rigid IGA tools that only work across a narrow set of HR and SSO integrations. That’s not going to cut it for the next decade.\nWe’re building something more foundational: a horizontal identity platform that any company-and increasingly, any AI agent-can plug into to understand and manage access. SaaS apps, infrastructure, internal tools, AI agents-if it has a concept of “who,” it should connect to us.\nWe’re still small, and we move fast. If you want to help build this from the ground up, you’ll have real ownership here.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a Design Engineer: someone who lives at the intersection of design thinking and hands-on building. This isn't a traditional design role where you hand off specs to engineering. 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Use whatever gets you from idea to artifact fastest.\n\nMake design decisions grounded in data. Draw on research and specs from product designers and product managers, and use tools to pull signal from usage, support, and customer feedback yourself, then translate what you find into solutions.\n\nContribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring consistency and quality as the product surface area grows.\n\nWork directly in code to prototype, validate, and ship UI. Not as a novelty, but as your default mode.\n\nCommunicate the why behind design decisions clearly and publicly. We design in the open here.\n\nCollaborate closely with engineering and product to maintain quality at speed.\n\nYou'd Be a Great Fit If…\nYou build things for fun. Side projects, tools, prototypes, experiments: you have a track record of making stuff outside of your day job.\n\nYou're all-in on AI tooling and actively use it to accelerate your work. You have opinions about which tools work and which don't, and you're always trying new ones.\n\nYou understand that building well with AI is about orchestration, not volume: planning what to build, managing context deliberately, and writing clear prompts. You know the difference between shouting at a model and actually steering it.\n\nYou have real product design skill (layout, hierarchy, interaction patterns, systems thinking), even if your recent work leans more toward code.\n\nYou have solid Figma experience. It's no longer our primary tool, but it's still part of the ecosystem and you should be fluent in it.\n\nYou're comfortable navigating ambiguity. 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