Security Engineer – Identity and Access Management (Remote – Canada)

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team at Yelp enables our employees to keep our data safe while delivering value to millions of users around the world. Our team is responsible for building, maintaining, and extending secure, reliable, and high-available systems which power centralized authentication, authorization, access management, and least-privileging across all of Yelp’s internal systems. With a blend of software engineering and security, our full-stack projects span diverse areas, including threat modeling, system analysis, and development of robust security systems using both backend and frontend technologies.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in the identity management and security spaces to join Yelp’s Identity and Access Management team. In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Yelp to work on interesting technical challenges, design and implement next generation access management, authorization, authentication, and compliance solutions to empower Yelp employees to do their job better, faster, and safer with minimum access.

This opportunity is fully remote and does not require you to be located in any particular area in Canada. We welcome applicants from throughout Canada. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you’ll do:
• Design and implement secure, robust, highly available, and scalable solutions to manage and optimize the workforce’s identity and access lifecycle.
• Develop and enforce access control policies by designing, building, and deploying authentication and authorization mechanisms within our Service-Oriented Architecture.
• Collaborate with teams across Yelp to assess IAM risks, define remediation strategies, and drive access improvements supporting the Principle of Least Privilege.
• Create models to systematically identify over-provisioned permissions and recommend enhancements to strengthen our least-privilege posture.
• Automate governance controls and improve the efficiency of compliance processes.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response as needed.

What it takes to succeed:
• An understanding of and background in IAM processes, access management lifecycles, role engineering, single sign-on, and associated best practices.
• Ideally 3+ years of experience in software engineering, developing full-stack, complex, and distributed applications.
• A strong understanding of designing elegant, well-structured APIs.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, C, etc.).
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• A collaborative mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing across teams.

What you’ll get:
• Compensation range is $85,000-237,000 annually. Depending on your role and level, you may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.
• You can find more information about Yelp’s five star benefits here!

Closing

At Yelp, we believe that diversity is an expression of all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education – and those are just a few. We recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our product. The foundation of our diversity efforts are closely tied to our core values, which include “Playing Well With Others” and “Authenticity.”

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other protected status.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or 1-415-969-8488.

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