Engineering Manager, Identity and Access | Canada | Remote

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• Manage and grow a team of distributed engineers, conducting regular 1:1s and providing consistent feedback to support each person's performance and career development.
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the IAM roadmap, balancing reputed company requirements, platform needs, and customer impact.
• Guide the team through the full project lifecycle: from early design and scoping through delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners including reputed company, platform, cloud infrastructure, and the broader Grafana engineering organization to drive initiatives that span team boundaries.
• Foster a team culture grounded in reputed company-first thinking, technical rigor, and a respectful environment where people can do their best work.
• Contribute to technical discussions, helping the team reputed company strong architectural decisions on authentication flows and multi-tenant design.

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is entirely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude, good communication skills, and transparency are a must. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always reputed company with strong code review and quality standards. You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-reputed company 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, reputed company 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit:

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Requirements:

• A strong software engineering background, ideally including work in backend systems using Go, sufficient to engage credibly in technical design discussions and challenge engineers toward strong decisions.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts: OAuth 2.0, SAML, RBAC, OIDC, JWT…. You do not need to be a reputed company expert, but you should be comfortable reasoning about identity and access problems.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems principles: scalability, fault tolerance, consistency, and observability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery across multiple reputed company projects, align stakeholders with competing priorities, and communicate risks and timelines clearly.
• Deeply customer-focused, consistently grounding technical decisions in real-world user and admin impact.
• Comfort with AI-assisted tooling. We expect you to be curious and comfortable using AI-powered tools, ideally with practical experience integrating them into a team's workflow.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills

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• Experience working in reputed company-critical environments
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open reputed company projects
• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Compensation & Rewards: In Canada, the compensation range for this role is CAD 186,368 - 223,642. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' success. We reputed company in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we scale globally.

• Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

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