Engineering Manager, Authorization - India

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager, you manage 1-2 teams, demonstrating strong domain ownership over product features, frameworks, and timely delivery. Leveraging expert knowledge in the Auth/Identity field, you guide teams through undefined issues, shape tactical change management, and ensure the 24/7 health of services.

What you’ll be doing:

• Safely deliver modern identity features by enforcing a "secure-by-default" culture with strict testing and progressive rollouts.

• Act as a proactive systems-planner, bridging high-level vision and tactical alignment by negotiating complex downstream dependencies (network, database, devices) far ahead of development cycles.

• Steer the architectural roadmap to transition components into scalable, cloud-native frameworks and drive scalability initiative to handle queue spikes, database at scale, and data-residency requirements.

• Evolve core directory protocols (LDAP/RADIUS) to handle increasing enterprise traffic spikes by transitioning existing systems into highly scalable, self-healing cloud architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage 1-2 teams of experienced professionals, exercising responsibility for staffing, budgets, and consistently delivering medium-term outcomes on predictable timelines.

• Integrate with teams to earn technical respect, establish psychological safety, provide real-time coaching for career growth, and aggressively resolve priority conflicts to keep teams unblocked.

• Establish deep operational oversight with rigorous, non-negotiable release protocols.

• Build collaborative stakeholder relationships and execute tactical change management strategies with urgency to remove barriers and solve complex problems.

• Act as a hands-on expert for auth services, directing via raw metrics and maintaining transparent cross-functional communication.

• Integrate automated AI workflows for routine tasks to free up engineering bandwidth.

• Champion Spec-Driven Development governance where engineers use robust specs and AI code-assistants (Cursor/Copilot), while retaining strict accountability for test coverage and code quality.

• Provide clarity by articulating how the team's work fits into wider departmental goals to ensure crystal clear direction.

We’re looking for:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years as an Individual Contributor (scaling to Staff Engineer or Tech Lead) and 4+ years in direct Engineering Management.

• Domain expertise in Identity & Access Management (IAM), authentication protocols, and related platform architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to apply sound technical judgment to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex problems, and drive decisive courses of action in high-stakes environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• University Degree or equivalent experience.