Staff Security Engineer - PAM and Agentic Identity
$168k - $270k • Remote • US, CA, Santa Clara
Posted 1mo ago
About the job
NVIDIA is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance, automate, and scale its Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Non-Human Identity (NHI) capabilities to meet the demands of the agentic era. This role will focus on improving existing platforms, simplifying user and operator experiences, and strengthening secure access controls for infrastructure, automation, service identities, and agentic workflows. As AI agents, coding agents, and autonomous workflows become more prevalent, this position is crucial for ensuring that privileged and infrastructure access services can scale securely with robust identity, authorization, observability, and auditability.
Responsibilities
- Modernize PAM, secure infrastructure access, and NHI services for privileged users, service accounts, AI/coding/service agents, and autonomous workflows.
- Automate and extend existing platforms using APIs, custom connectors, policy-as-code, onboarding templates, reporting, and service catalog integrations to enhance self-service and reduce manual effort.
- Integrate PAM, NHI, and secure access controls into AI/LLM-enabled applications, agent frameworks, internal developer platforms, and autonomous workflows.
- Expand service coverage across Linux/Windows, cloud and on-prem systems, container orchestration platforms, data storage solutions, network devices, developer platforms, IaC, CI/CD, and internal tools.
- Mature core controls including JIT access, zero standing privilege, session recording, break-glass access, credential rotation, access reviews, and audit evidence.
- Ensure service reliability through SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, operational readiness, continuous improvement, and technology evaluation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in security, infrastructure/platform engineering, SRE, IAM, or related enterprise technology roles.
- 4+ years of direct experience with PAM and NHI solutions.
- Balanced infrastructure and software development skills, with the ability to manage complex production services and build automated processes, system connections, application interfaces, connectors, and operational tooling.
- Practical experience with Linux and Windows environments, on-prem and cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, databases, CI/CD systems, and production operations.
- Experience with PAM or secrets platforms such as Idira/CyberArk, Teleport, Azure PIM, HashiCorp Vault, or similar technologies.
- Strong SRE mentality, operational rigor, and collaboration skills across global engineering, IT, security, and platform teams.
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits