Senior Engineering Manager, Identity PlatformLocation: Toronto, ON
Employment Type: Full-time
Job SummaryWe're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development and modernization of KaseyaOne, the identity platform supporting authentication and access management across Kaseya's product portfolio. This is a technical leadership role focused on evolving our identity architecture, migrating existing capabilities into scalable services, and ensuring the reliability and security of systems that support customer and partner access. You'll lead a distributed engineering team while remaining closely involved in architecture, technical decisions, delivery, and production operations.
Roles & Responsibilities- Lead and develop an engineering team responsible for authentication, authorization, identity services, and platform integrations, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
- Drive the modernization of KaseyaOne, including the migration of existing identity capabilities from a monolithic application into independently deployable services
- Guide architecture and technical decisions for authentication, federated identity, session management, token issuance, and API access across multiple products
- Partner with Product, Architecture, and Security teams to define priorities, manage technical dependencies, and deliver platform initiatives with clear milestones and risk management
- Oversee the development and operation of backend services using Go, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and supporting platform technologies
- Lead improvements in platform availability, security, observability, incident response, and deployment reliability, including safe migration and rollback practices
- Support the evolution of identity capabilities, including OAuth clients, personal access tokens, delegated authorization, user provisioning, and multi-tenant access management
- Establish engineering practices that improve delivery, testing, technical quality, and team effectiveness, including the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production SaaS applications, backend platforms, or distributed systems
- 3+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, technical delivery, and career development
- Experience designing, developing, or operating production identity and access management systems using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, or enterprise SSO
- Experience leading the modernization, migration, or re-architecture of production backend services or customer-facing platforms
- Experience guiding architecture and operating cloud-based distributed systems using AWS, Azure, or GCP, including production reliability and incident management
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with Go or similar backend programming languages and microservices-based architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh technologies such as Istio, or cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience integrating identity platforms such as Zitadel, Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS identity, machine authentication, token lifecycle management, or fine-grained authorization
- Experience managing engineering teams distributed across multiple locations or time zones
- Experience leading phased migrations, feature-flagged deployments, or reliability improvements for business-critical systems
- Experience introducing AI-assisted development practices or integrating AI-enabled security capabilities into engineering workflows
Compensation RangeThe base salary range for this job is CAD $170,000 - $220,000 / year.
An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant. At Kaseya, certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
