Jobs In CIAM
Heya,
Out of curiosity, I set up an LinkedIn alert for “CIAM engineer” a year or so ago. I ended up seeing a number of job listings specifically for CIAM engineering. There were lots of repeats and recruiters shopping the same job, but it still was interesting.
I just did the search right now, and you can see a few:
Job Search Stats
Now, LinkedIn job search is problematic. I get repeat listings, you can’t tell if something is a direct hire or a recruiter casting a wide net, and the matching algorithm offers up a grab bag. But let’s take a look at these 24 listings, which I reviewed manually.
8 were duplicates. These were either the same organization posting multiple times or recruiters copy/pasting job requirements.
Of the unique 16 jobs:
7 were for Okta (primarily, other identity stores were mentioned)
3 were for Forgerock
3 were for homegrown systems
2 were for Ping or PingOne
Only 5 of the unique 16 jobs had a salary range.
$100,000 was the minimum
$270,000 was the maximum
$188,280 was the average
$151,500 was the median
Of the unique 16 jobs, 9 were for consulting firms or recruiting firms. 7 were direct hires.
While this is not a large dataset, this is indicative of the wide range of experience and technologies that all qualify as CIAM engineers. The titles ranged widely too.
Most of these jobs involved implementation of existing identity store platforms, but there are also jobs for homegrown systems or where the systems weren’t specified.
OpenAI Is Hiring
An interesting one, not found on LinkedIn, is for OpenAI, where they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform.
The requirements include:
Interest or experience with protocols such as OAuth 2.0, SAML, SCIM, and OpenID Connect.
Have industry experience with projects such as Hydra or Auth0, and languages such as Python or Golang.
Don’t worry, there’s a lot more.
But be aware, they’ve had this req open for at least four months (here’s the first I heard about it) so they either:
have too high a bar (they want to know “What is your most significant technical achievement?” as part of the application process)
aren’t serious about hiring or
can’t find the talent they need in SF (it is onsite there)
OpenAI is currently paying Auth0 for auth (though probably not, as this Twitter user joked, $12T a year).
Conclusion
Finally, the fact that CIAM engineer turns up any results in job sites indicates there’s demand for this skill set.
Pretty cool for a technology that didn’t really exist 15 years ago.
Dan