Staff Software Engineer - Identity Security

**Staff Software Engineer – Identity Security \| Dublin, Hybrid** Staff Software Engineer opportunity with an established cybersecurity product company in Dublin. You will join a newly dedicated Identity team building security capabilities for human accounts, AI agents, service accounts and other machine identities. This is a newly created, hands\-on role. You will help shape how the product collects identity activity, detects suspicious behaviour and presents useful findings to customers. The team has strong knowledge of the existing platform and is looking for someone who can bring deeper identity\-security expertise. You will lead complex technical work while continuing to design systems and write code yourself. You will also work closely with security researchers and data scientists as the team explores emerging risks around AI agents and non\-human identities. The ideal candidate is a Staff\-level software engineer with strong technical depth who has **built identity\-security capabilities** , rather than only used identity tools to add sign\-in to an application. Experience with machine identities or AI agents would be particularly relevant. **Role / opportunity:** * Newly created Staff Software Engineer position in a dedicated Identity team * Build security capabilities across data ingestion, analysis, detection and customer\-visible findings * Help shape the product’s approach to AI agents and machine identities * Hands\-on coding, system design and technical leadership * Work closely with Security Research, Data Science and Product * Python, AWS and Terraform * Senior individual contributor role with no people management * Dublin\-based hybrid team, typically in the office around twice a week **Skills / experience:** * Strong software engineering experience building and operating production systems * Hands\-on experience building identity\-security products, features or capabilities * Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, credentials, tokens and permissions * Experience designing distributed or cloud\-based systems and leading complex technical work * Interest in how AI agents and other automated systems are given access and secured **Salary:** Competitive package, including stock options \+ extensive benefits.