Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Vault
IBM2 days ago
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Summary
IBM is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Vault to lead the team responsible for evolving their flagship security product in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on enabling customers to use agents securely at scale.
About the Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager within Vault, you will drive the technical vision for handling Non-Human Identities (NHI), mentor a team of senior engineers, and ensure the product meets rigorous uptime and performance requirements. You will work closely with Product and Architecture teams to translate market needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable code, while exploring emerging industry standards for identity services across multi-cloud environments.
About You
Required:
- Deep experience leading teams of 15+ engineers with a track record of shipping complex, enterprise-grade infrastructure at scale.
- Deep fluency in modern identity standards such as OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
- Experience building distributed systems that handle high-volume, short-lived credentials.
- Background in Zero Trust principles with a focus on Just-in-Time (JIT) access.
- Deep understanding of how automated agents interact with cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building and maintaining plugin-based architectures or SDKs.
- Exceptional ability to articulate complex security concepts to technical contributors and executive leadership.
Preferred:
- Experience contributing to or implementing emerging standards for Non-Human Identity (NHI).
- Familiarity with security challenges in AI agent orchestration or autonomous robotic process automation (RPA).
- Background in building automated policy-as-code engines or real-time remediation systems.
- Knowledge of hardware-backed trust anchors for workload attestation.
- Previous experience engaging with open-source security communities or standards bodies.
IBM
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San Jose, CA