Full-Time

Principal Engineer Identity Security

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First American

First American

10,001+ employees

Provides title insurance and real estate services

Financial Services
Real Estate

Compensation Overview

$192.4k - $256.5kAnnually

Senior, Expert

Orange, CA, USA

Hybrid role requiring in-office presence.

Category
Security Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Market Research
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Typically have 15+ years of directly related experience. At least 10 years of experience in enterprise-level security engineering.
  • Extensive experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP Cloud.
  • In-depth knowledge of modern authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth2, etc.).
  • Expertise in implementing IAM lifecycle management, provisioning, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and role-based access control (RBAC).
  • Strong understanding of identity lifecycle management, access control, and security policies.
  • Experience working with distributed team is preferred.
  • Expertise with Cloud Security configurations that are agnostic in execution.
  • Expertise with developing multiple tiers of multi-tiered IAM Cloud integrations.
  • Expertise in designing Identity based Security models for Cloud platforms.
  • Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills and mentoring others to increase the skill level of the department and the company.
  • Must have conceptual understanding of Cloud container domain technologies.
  • Ability to convey technical and conceptual ideas/topics to non-technical personnel.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Strong organizational or Project Management skills.
  • Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
  • Responsible for program design, coding, automated testing, debugging, and documentation.
  • Responsible for quality assurance review of architectural objectives.
  • Has full technical knowledge of all phases of Cloud Identity relationships.
  • Identifies problems, anticipates effects across business communities, research best practice alternatives, prepares presentations, drives solutions, tests to confirm, gains consensus from a broad business community, and implements customized solutions.
  • Troubleshoots and drives solutions on a wide variety of complex problems.
  • Works to define drive and implement broad based conceptual issues.
  • Acts independently under broad direction.
  • Actively identifies issues, seeks out solutions and makes recommendations to the broad business community to apply customized solutions to solve business problems.
Responsibilities
  • Lead complex technical engineering discussions for purpose to create solutions designed to drive innovation while ensuring solutions are designed for secure deployment in the cloud and other platforms.
  • Collaborate with Operations, Governance, and Engineering teams to ensure the secure development, deployment, and optimization of access management services.
  • Drive innovation, establish best practices, and influence the future architecture of identity security while being hands-on in developing solutions.
  • Make recommendations on integration strategies, engineering solutions, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize product effectiveness.
  • Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic customers across the business and engage with Architects and senior management to identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire ecosystem to deliver business value.
  • Perform market research on best-of-breed technologies and lead the engineering team to develop successful proof-of-concepts to test and learn new capabilities.
  • Lead discussions with business partners to clearly understand opportunities and identify innovative ways to leverage technology to solve complex business issues.
  • Design, develop and enhance technical architecture patterns and frameworks for others to leverage across the enterprise.
  • Work with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and product owners to understand and maintain a high-level understanding of the current and upcoming requirements for the system.
  • Understand and communicate the nonfunctional requirements for the system.
  • Evaluate design alternatives, and perform cost benefit analysis.
  • Develop and maintain whatever models and documentation are necessary to describe how the system does what it is intended to do, including recommended domain and user case models.
  • Define and split large architectural objectives into smaller incremental objectives.
  • Present the technological vision of the solution during planning, provide domain models and exemplary use cases that describe larger system behavior, and participate actively in interactively during the planning process.
  • Champion change by serving as a resource to help teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation.
  • Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized phases of applications programming.
  • Research, design, write, test and implement complex software applications and systems.
  • Provide practical, actionable approaches to overcoming technical and procedural challenges in implementing strategy.
  • Lead Cloud Identity governance.
  • Champion change; drive and set technical direction affecting multiple groups/business units.
  • Provide leadership by instructing, mentoring and training team members within and outside the work group.
  • Work with other engineers to establish common roadmaps in support of upcoming user and business needs.
  • Interact with and influence senior management on technical matters requiring coordination between organizations.
  • Provides technical consulting on complex projects.
  • Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.

First American provides title insurance, specialty insurance, and various real estate-related services. Their title insurance protects buyers' investments and ownership rights during real estate transactions, ensuring that the property title is clear of any issues. The company offers a platform called myFirstAm®, which allows users to access property information, maps, and manage open orders conveniently. First American differentiates itself from competitors by offering a comprehensive range of services that include mortgage lender solutions, real estate data solutions, home warranty products, and trust services, all designed to streamline transactions and reduce risks. The company's goal is to facilitate smooth real estate transactions while protecting clients' investments and providing valuable insights into the real estate market.

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$800.2M

Headquarters

Santa Ana, California

Founded

1889

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Acquisition of Mother Lode Holding expands market share in title insurance.
  • Docutech purchase boosts digital mortgage solutions, increasing information revenue by 38%.
  • Investment in fintech like Knock aligns with growing tech integration in real estate.

What critics are saying

  • Allegations of data exposure could harm First American's reputation and lead to legal issues.
  • Integration of Mother Lode Holding may face challenges, risking expected synergies.
  • Dependence on digital mortgage solutions could be risky if market or technology shifts.

What makes First American unique

  • First American offers comprehensive title insurance and settlement services nationwide.
  • The company provides extensive real estate data solutions with a vast document image database.
  • First American's venture arm invests in fintech, enhancing its technological integration.

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