# Principal IAM Engineer

Job Description About the role We are looking for a principal individual contributor in IT Engineering to build and advance our Identity and Access Management (IAM) function for human and agent identities. You will personally deliver complex engineering work, coach the team and align technical and business partners on a shared identity vision and roadmap. This role combines engineering, architecture and business systems analysis. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential. You will turn ambiguous business needs into clear requirements and practical designs, explain trade-offs, and help teams agree on decisions when standards or priorities conflict. What you will do Engineering: Design, build, test and operate complex IAM solutions across identity lifecycle automation, authentication, provisioning, integrations and access governance. Apply SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SCIM appropriately, and validate edge cases and recovery before and after changes. Automation: Build maintainable automation with APIs and scripting, using version control, peer review and automated tests. Use infrastructure as code where appropriate to make identity configuration repeatable a

- **Id**: 4111741
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zendesk-principal-iam-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T23:26:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T23:26:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8923
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: CRM Software, Customer Support & Help Desk Software

## Company

- **Id**: 369
- **Name**: Zendesk
- **Domain**: zendesk.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zendesk>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 29
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.586
- **Repost share**: 0.069
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 193000
- **Max**: 289000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 289000

## Technologies

- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Service Desk** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T23:26:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 50 · green card filings: 21; Filings 12m: 50

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T00:48:29Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 289000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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