Staff Engineer, Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

• Assess our current state of IAM and revamp our IAM strategy  across our products, cloud/on-premise infrastructure and  corporate applications to accelerate key business outcomes.
• Drive IAM implementation as part of our larger zero-trust security strategy 
• Architect and Design cloud-based identity governance, access management and cloud directory solutions
• Implement RBAC/ABAC based IAM workflows for onboarding and ongoing identity lifecycle management
• Act as a key technical and strategic advisor for cross-functional teams including IT, security, and development to ensure that IAM principles are integrated into broader security architecture.
• Partner with Engineering and IT  teams to ensure our products and applications are developed and implemented with  fine-tuned access privileges and are appropriately risk
• Establish well-defined KPIs, KCIs, and KRIs that provide visibility into IAM control effectiveness and support continuous improvement.
• Ensure regulatory compliance by partnering with other teams to design IAM solutions that meet standards for SOX, GxP, etc. 

.The Team You'll Join

You will join a growing Information Security team at Recursion, focused on enabling Recursion to decode biology by providing world class secure technology services that are designed and fit for purpose. You'll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to ensure that IAM systems support the organization's broader business objectives while maintaining the highest standards of security.

Working Location:

This position is based at our office located in Toronto. Please note that we are a hybrid environment and ask that employees spend 50% of their time per week in office. 

The Experience You'll Need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Identity & Access Management and other information security related domains.
• Deep understanding of security principles and proven track record of successfully leading large-scale IAM projects from strategy to execution, particularly within cloud-first and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Python) as they relate to IAM products.
• Expert level experience in one or more of the leading Enterprise Identity Administration & Governance solutions
• Expert level Experience in Adaptive Authentication, OAuth, OpenID, SAML etc.
• Expert level experience with the identity stack like Enterprise Active Directory as well as experience working with IAM products in the cloud like Okta, AWS, Azure AD, Duo or equivalent
• Expert level experience with privileged access management solutions (e.g., Delinea, CyberArk).
• Knowledge of operating systems (UNIX/Linux, macOS, Windows) and of database management systems (Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, capable of driving security initiatives and influencing change across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Act as a Business Systems Analyst and articulate and elicit requirements and use-cases in a manner that is technology agnostic
• A continuous improvement mindset, staying up to date with the latest IAM trends and technologies to drive innovation within the organization.
• Experience with risk management, ensuring that IAM solutions are aligned with organizational risk tolerance and compliance requirements.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, OSCP, GWAPT) are highly desirable.

How You’ll be Supported

At Recursion, we’re working to solve some of the most meaningful challenges in human health. During onboarding, you’ll be introduced to the Recursion Mindset and Recursion OS through a blend of in-person and online resources designed to help you quickly embrace our culture. You’ll be paired with an onboarding "Trail Guide" to support you in your first months and connect with colleagues, both in person and remotely, who will guide you through the traditional and Recursion-specific aspects of your role. Additionally, you’ll join onboarding events, like Decoding Recursion, to deepen your understanding and integration into the team.

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At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:

• Developing: $192,500 CAD 
• Skilled: $214,000 CAD
• Expert: $235,500 CAD 

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for Canada based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.  

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.