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Coupang is building a platform designed to power AI workloads at scale. As part of this multi-year initiative, the Identity team is responsible for managing user and machine identities, authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication across the platform. This role will drive the development of foundational identity services that enable secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, handling hundreds of thousands of authentication events daily with rapidly growing scale.\nResponsibilities:\nBuild and scale identity and authentication systems for a next-generation AI platform.\nWork on cutting-edge IAM challenges including OAuth2 OIDC, service-to-service authentication, and machine identity.\nOperate and scale systems handling 500K+ authentication requests daily.\nCollaborate across global teams in India, the US, and other regions.\nLead and grow a high-performing backend engineering team focused on identity and access management.\nDrive development of core IAM capabilities including authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle management.\nDesign and build scalable systems for user identity and machine identity management within a cloud environment.\nWork on modern authentication protocols such as OAuth2 OIDC, and SAML, and implement secure service-to-service authentication.\nBuild and evolve authorization frameworks leveraging RBAC/ABAC models and policy engines (e. g., OPA).\nPartner with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure for AI workloads.\nDrive technical design, execution planning, and delivery of complex distributed systems.\nEnsure reliability, scalability, and security of identity systems as the platform scales rapidly.\nMentor engineers and foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership and excellence.\nRequirements:\n13 - 17 years of backend software engineering experience.\nStrong experience in backend development using Java or Python with REST API design.\nHands-on experience with authentication and authorization technologies (OAuth2 OIDC, SAML).\nSolid understanding of identity systems including user identity and machine/workload identity.\nExperience with service-to-service authentication and distributed system security.\nStrong problem-solving and execution skills with the ability to break down complex systems.\nExperience working in cloud environments (AWS preferred).\nStrong stakeholder management and communication skills.\nExperience building IAM systems in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).\nFamiliarity with PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and secure identity frameworks.\nExperience with authorization frameworks (RBAC, ABAC, OPA).\nExposure to Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.\nExperience working on large-scale distributed systems handling high request volumes.\nBackground in platform engineering or infrastructure teams.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3040,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":13,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-01T20:11:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.4,"p_active":0.73,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":58,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["seen:58","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/coupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/coupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-30T22:56:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13952,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-31T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":94432},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=94432"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcoupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcoupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcoupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/coupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcoupang-senior-staff-software-engineer-iam"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":187019}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"coupang.jobs","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":187019},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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