Senior Identity Engineer

Join Later as a Senior Identity Engineer, where you'll play a critical role in strengthening and scaling the security foundations of our platform. This role combines deep security expertise with hands-on engineering, focusing on identity and access management, authentication systems, and secure-by-design development practices. You'll collaborate closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product teams to embed security into our CI/CD pipelines, internal platforms, and customer-facing systems.

• Assess and continuously improve Later’s security posture across applications, infrastructure, and development workflows, with a focus on identity and access management.
• Define and implement scalable security standards, guardrails, and best practices that support compliance through automated and auditable solutions.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to align security priorities with business objectives and delivery timelines, ensuring that security controls are embedded into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with modern backend systems (including C#) and cloud-native architectures
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence engineering teams to improve security outcomes
• 5–7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus
• Experience supporting compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable guidance
• Hands-on experience with identity and access management, including authentication systems, authorization frameworks, and machine-to-machine security patterns
• Proven experience building and operating production-grade software, systems, or internal tooling
• Strong background in application security, infrastructure security, and secure CI/CD practices
• Experience applying security frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, or CIS Controls in real-world production environments
• Familiarity with cloud security tooling (AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center), SIEM/SOAR tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth
• Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity
• Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear
• Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights
• Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high
• Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement
• Experience designing or migrating identity architecture at scale
• This is a high-impact individual contributor role for someone who thinks like a defender, builds like a software engineer, and leads through influence
• Experience working in a high-growth technology environment
• Experience building internal developer security tooling