IAM Engineer at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Join our Identity and Access Management (IAM) team and help secure the foundation of Kraken’s digital infrastructure. We leverage tools like Okta and ConductorOne to build a seamless, secure, and scalable access ecosystem - one that empowers users while meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Securely managing credentials/access in Crypto comes with unique and exciting challenges. We’re solving problems like:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">“How do we manage access for apps that don’t support SSO?”</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">“How do we implement ABAC and RBAC to deliver intelligent birthright access?”</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">“How can we enforce strong access controls without slowing down engineers and business teams?”</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're a team that values creativity, speed, and precision and we’re looking for someone equally passionate about building secure, user-friendly access systems.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own, implement, and continuously improve IAM tooling like Okta and ConductorOne across the enterprise</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Drive adoption of scalable access controls including RBAC, ABAC, and JIT models</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with compliance and audit teams to ensure access aligns with frameworks like SOX, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate on large, cross-functional projects across security, engineering and IT</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mentor junior engineers and promote IAM best practices across the organization</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Support access integration for mergers &amp; acquisitions - onboarding acquired companies and