What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Security Engineer position at Cognowiz?
Job Title: Staff Security Engineer- ( MUST HAVE RUST OR GOLANG EXPERIENCE )
Location: Hybrid in one of these places 2 days a week Orange County, CA, Seattle WA, Columbus OH, or DC
Mode of interview: 2 Vitural Interviews
Refferal Pay $10/HR
Candidate pay: 100-120/HR W2
JOB DESCRIPTION
Summary
The Application and Security Engineering team is looking for a Staff Security Engineer to focus on identity and access management and build and maintain world-class defensive controls to protect the systems we use to build our advanced defense technology products.
Responsibilities
- Build an identity engine that powers the whole company and supercharges our security program
- Create applications that enable and enforce our identity framework across the company
- Develop integrations that unify identities across IdPs, cloud providers, SaaS tools, and internal systems
- Automate identity lifecycle operations, including provisioning, access reviews, and offboarding
- Collaborate with other IAM engineers and partner teams to define architecture and ship iteratively
Required Qualifications
- Strong programming ability in one or more general-purpose languages (Go, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with one or more infrastructure-as-code languages (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK) in a production capacity
- Experience with identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, OAuth) or identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, etc.)
- Proven ability to translate system design requirements into clean, maintainable implementations
- Experience leading or contributing to architecture and design reviews
- Experience working with cloud platforms and deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of projects, and collaborate across teams
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
- Experience working in environments with complex identity or access issues, including troubleshooting across distributed systems is preferred
- Familiarity with RBAC, ABAC, or policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., OPA, Cedar)- preferred
- Experience building bespoke solutions in high-growth and high-complexity environments is preferred
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform ecosystems and tooling is highly preferred
Salary : $100 - $120