Staff IT Engineer
$138,000–$138,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Build internal platforms, tools, and automations to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of IT operations for employee lifecycle, identity architecture, and endpoint trust models. Own technical patterns for SaaS provisioning, operational reporting, and AI-enabled operating models while partnering with Engineering, Information Security, and Compliance teams to support Zero Trust architecture, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements. Develop scripts and integrations using Python, Bash, REST APIs, and CI/CD practices to establish durable engineering patterns and raise system quality through hands-on technical leadership and DevOps/SRE-aligned incident response.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in IT engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
- Strong scripting or software development experience using Python, Bash or similar languages.
- Experience building integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, service accounts and API authentication patterns.
- Strong experience with identity and endpoint platforms such as Okta, Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
- Strong understanding of least privilege access, device trust, conditional access, non-human identity governance, auditability and Zero Trust principles.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with SaaS automation or iPaaS platforms such as Workato, Okta Workflows, or similar tools.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration-as-code, AWS, Lambda, IAM, Linux administration or GitHub Actions.
- Experience supporting enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI workflows, AI-enabled automation or internal AI tooling.
- Familiarity with AI governance concerns such as agent identity, tool access, data boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls and AI activity logging.
- Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, high-growth startups or rapidly scaling enterprise IT organizations.
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