Staff Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

About the role

In this role, you will assess our current state of IAM and revamp our IAM strategy across our products, platforms, cloud/on-premise infrastructure and corporate applications to accelerate key business outcomes. You will drive IAM implementation as part of our larger zero-trust security strategy, architect and design cloud-based identity governance, access management and cloud directory solutions, implement RBAC/ABAC based IAM workflows for onboarding and ongoing identity lifecycle management, act as a key technical and strategic advisor for cross-functional teams including IT, security, and development, partner with Engineering and IT teams to ensure our products and applications are developed and implemented with fine-tuned access privileges and are appropriately risk-managed, establish well-defined KPIs, KCIs, and KRIs that provide visibility into IAM control effectiveness and support continuous improvement, ensure regulatory compliance by partnering with other teams to design IAM solutions that meet standards for SOX, GxP, etc.

Responsibilities

• Assess current state of IAM and revamp strategy
• Drive IAM implementation as part of zero-trust security strategy
• Architect and design cloud-based IAM solutions
• Implement RBAC/ABAC based IAM workflows
• Act as a technical and strategic advisor to cross-functional teams
• Partner with Engineering and IT teams for product development
• Establish KPIs and KRIs for IAM control effectiveness
• Ensure regulatory compliance with IAM solutions

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains
• Deep understanding of security principles and successful track record of leading large-scale IAM projects
• Expertise in programming languages relevant to IAM products
• Expert level experience in IAM solutions, adaptive authentication, OAuth, OpenID, SAML, and identity stack
• Expert level experience with privileged access management solutions
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of driving security initiatives and influencing change across multiple teams
• Continuous improvement mindset, staying up to date with IAM trends and technologies
• Experience with risk management, ensuring IAM solutions align with organizational risk tolerance and compliance requirements

Qualifications

• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, OSCP, GWAPT) are highly desirable

Skills

• Programming Languages (Java, C++, Python)
• Enterprise Identity Administration & Governance Solutions
• Adaptive Authentication, OAuth, OpenID, SAML
• Cloud-Based Identity Governance
• Privileged Access Management Solutions
• Operating Systems (UNIX/Linux, macOS, Windows)
• Database Management Systems

Benefits

At Recursion, we offer an estimated annual base salary range of $180,600–$212,900, along with an annual bonus, equity compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package. Remote work is considered for this position, with a commitment to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.

Pay

The estimated annual base salary range is: $180,600–$212,900.

Schedule

Working Location & Compensation: Making SLC your home base is ideal, however, we will consider remote work for this position. We ask that remote employees commit to regular on-site visits for routine work and departmental events.

Values

We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust. We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action. We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection. We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day. We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together. We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

Company Overview

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical-stage TechBio company decoding biology to radically improve lives. Recursion is advancing a portfolio of differentiated investigational medicines across its wholly owned and partnered pipeline in oncology, rare disease, neuroscience, immunology, and other therapeutic areas with significant unmet need. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, an AI-native, end-to-end drug discovery and development platform integrating biology, chemistry, and clinical development into a unified intelligence system. Powered by proprietary multimodal data, purpose-built AI models, and bilingual teams fluent in both science and AI, the Recursion OS is designed to translate complex science into medicines that matter — faster, better, and at scale — for patients who are waiting. Recursion’s platform infrastructure is anchored in Salt Lake City, Utah and Milton Park, Oxfordshire, where its automated biology and chemistry laboratories generate proprietary data at industrial scale. Recursion also maintains offices in New York, Montréal, and London, three global hubs for talent and leadership at the intersection of AI and scientific innovation.