Engineering Manager - Enterprise Security

Kraken

Within the Core Services organization, Accounts & Security builds the client-facing security foundations used across Kraken products. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Enterprise Security team, building enterprise-grade security features for our largest clients and reusable capabilities across the Payward portfolio, integrated with the organizations and permissioning stack.

As Engineering Manager for Enterprise Security, you will lead a team of engineers while partnering closely with technical leaders to set direction and drive delivery. You will work cross-functionally with Product, Security, SRE, and stakeholder teams to deliver secure, scalable, and low-friction enterprise security solutions.

The opportunity

• Lead an engineering team building client-facing enterprise security features for Kraken s largest clients and Payward portfolio

• Design and implement libraries and microservices in Rust

• Deliver bring-your-own IdP integrations and modern enterprise authentication flows

• Build provisioning and access automation capabilities (e.g., SCIM) integrated with the organizations and permissioning stack

• Establish high-quality engineering standards and lead complex systems development, using powerful AI tools to your advantage.

• Partner cross-functionally to deliver enterprise-grade security features that meet customer and regulatory expectations

Skills you should HODL

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering

• 2+ years of experience in hands-on engineering management of a team from 4-8 people

• Experience with security-sensitive backend systems (authentication, authorization, identity, permissions, auditability)

• Familiarity with enterprise security and identity standards and integrations (e.g., SSO)

• Track record leading delivery and operation of multi-tenant backend systems in production environments

• Direct experience with Rust in production

• Proactive and results-oriented mindset with the ability to prioritize tasks

• Excellent and collaborative communication and stakeholder management skills

• Passion for solving complex engineering problems

Nice to haves

• Built or operated IdP integrations at scale (OIDC/SAML), including enterprise SSO deployments (Okta, Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID)

• Implemented provisioning automation standards (e.g., SCIM)

• Delivered audit logging, security event pipelines, or SIEM integrations

• Designed scalable permissioning models (RBAC/ABAC/PBAC) and least-privilege programs