We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Customer Trust & Engineering team working on Identity and Access Management. IAM is the bedrock of trust at DigitalOcean; our services sit in the critical path of every request, authorizing billions of transactions per second with single-digit millisecond latency.

In this role, you will set the technical direction for DigitalOceans Identity platform not just for the IAM team, but across the engineering organization. You will define the architecture for our next-generation identity primitives, drive cross-org alignment on how identity intersects with AI workloads, billing, and access governance, and establish the engineering standards that the team builds against. If you are a seasoned engineer who wants to combine deep technical expertise with broad organizational impact, this is the role for you.

What You ll Do
- Define Platform Architecture: Set the technical direction for DigitalOceans Identity platform; designing for hyperscale, multi-tenancy, and the evolving requirements of AI-native enterprise customers.



Your architecture decisions will span multiple teams and multi-year roadmaps.
- Lead Agent Identity Strategy: Architect the IAM foundations for agentic AI workloads; including workload identity (SPIFFE/SPIRE-style), short-lived credential issuance, delegation chains, and identity context propagation across inference pipelines. This is greenfield, high-impact work.
- Drive Protocol Adoption: Own the technical strategy for identity protocol adoption across DigitalOcean; evaluating and standardizing on OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and emerging standards; driving federation architecture for strategic enterprise and global partners.
- Evolve the Policy Engine: Define the long-term architecture of our authorization layer; including compound RBAC/ABAC/PBAC models, hierarchical resource scoping, and network-aware access conditions; ensuring it scales to serve both platform-internal and customer-facing use cases.
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📌 Senior Software Engineer II (Bengaluru)
🏢 DigitalOcean
📍 Bengaluru