Lead Agent Identity Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Agent Identity Engineer to own runtime identity and access control for an Enterprise Agent Development Platform — a production-grade, cloud-native ecosystem that enables engineering teams to define, orchestrate, deploy, and observe AI agents at scale.

covers inbound and outbound auth, on-behalf-of token exchange, and enterprise identity federation across agent to tool to API chains, using LangGraph and Strands Agents on AWS Agent

Core Runtime.

Own runtime identity and access control for the agent platform, including inbound and outbound auth Design and implement On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange and scoped identity propagation across agent → tool → API chains Integrate identity into the agent invocation lifecycle within Agent

Core Runtime Manage Gateway outbound authorization and per-target credentials, ensuring secrets are never exposed to the calling agent Build and maintain token vault and workload identity brokering capabilities Coordinate Cedar / MS Entra claims mapping for identity-aware authorization with Runtime Controls Validate claims, scopes, audience, and issuer for JWT / O

Auth 2.0 / OIDC tokens, including short-lived scoped tokens Partner with platform and security teams to enforce consistent identity governance across the agent ecosystem

5+ years of experience in cloud security or identity engineering Hands-on experience with identity and access control specifically for AI agents in a production agen