Staff Identity Security Engineer

About Us

Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country.  Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money.  At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well-being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.

How This Role Impacts Live Oak and its People

The Staff Identity Security Engineer will be responsible for designing and building secure, scalable identity management and access control systems. You will focus on architecting identity solutions, enhancing security protocols, and developing identity management software at the core of our infrastructure.

What You’ll Do at Live Oak

• Build Custom Identity Solutions: Develop custom software solutions to automate identity lifecycle management, integrate IAM tools, PAM solutions and enhance existing authentication and authorization services, including Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and identity federation.

• Develop custom software solutions for automating identity management tasks, integrating with third-party IAM solutions, and building security-focused identity applications (e.g., SDKs, AI, APIs, internal tools).

• Build IAM infrastructure and optimize automation tools and scripts (e.g., in Python, Node.js, React, Go, or similar languages) to manage identity lifecycles, provisioning, de-provisioning, and self-service capabilities.

• Write high-quality technical documentation to describe complex technology design and codify architectural decisions.

• Identify gaps and proactively improve efficiencies within your direct team and across the department.

• Design and implement libraries and frameworks that allow us to effectively scale development on our different applications.

• DevOps / CI/CD Integration: Ability to integrate identity security tools and workflows into DevOps and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous security for IAM systems.

How You’ll Do It

• Effectively articulate complex ideas and technical concepts while interacting with stakeholders at all levels.

• Apply knowledge of AI, machine learning, and natural language processing techniques, especially as they relate to code analysis, error prediction, and suggestion systems. Advocate for the input of various team members and collect appropriate level of feedback to help guide discussions.

• Mentor and collaborate closely with software engineering teams to integrate IAM solutions into their applications, frameworks, etc.

• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and promote security-first development practices across teams.

• Write secure, efficient, and reusable code to integrate IAM systems. This includes building and maintaining APIs, automating provisioning and de-provisioning workflows, and creating custom IAM applications to meet the needs of the business.

• Implement and Incorporate secure software development practices throughout the entire development lifecycle (SDLC), including code reviews, static code analysis, and vulnerability testing to ensure that identity systems are resistant to attacks like credential stuffing and privilege escalation.

• Design and implement automated identity governance processes, such as role mining, certification, and auditing systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements like GDPR, SOC 2, and HIPAA.

Required and Preferred Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience with IAM tools and development

• Expert programming abilities with best practices (Node.js, React, Bootstrap, Python)

• Expertise in designing and deploying IGA and PAM solutions, such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Sailpoint, Identity Governance, etc.

• Expert in Cloud tools (Datawarehouse, AWS, Azure)

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem-solving and engineering skills.

• Experienced being a technical leader on a team.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and tools.

• Understanding regulatory requirements like GDPR, GLBA, SOC 2, and SOX.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or related field, or equivalent experience.

Our Values

• Dedication: