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Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Vault

IBM

Software Engineering, Other Engineering

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Feb 6, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Engineering Manager within Vault leading the Agentic Vault initiative, you will lead the team responsible for evolving our flagship security product to enable our customers to use agents securely at scale.

Strategic Execution: Drive the technical vision for how our core platform handles the explosion of Non-Human Identities (NHI), ensuring we stay ahead of the shift toward autonomous, agent-driven infrastructure.
High-Stakes Leadership: Mentor and scale a team of senior engineers focused on deep-tier infrastructure, fostering a culture of rigorous security design and high-velocity delivery.
Global Leadership: Lead teams based out of North America and India.
Stakeholder Alignment: Work closely with Product and Architecture to translate market needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable code.
Systemic Reliability: Ensure the product can support the rigorous uptime and performance requirements of automated systems that rely on real-time, delegated authentication.
Future-Proofing: Lead the team in exploring and adopting emerging industry standards to ensure our identity services remain the universal authority across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workplace a minimum of three days a week subject to business needs.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Engineering Leadership: Deep experience leading teams of 15+ engineers, with a track record of shipping complex, enterprise-grade infrastructure at scale.
Modern Identity Standards: Deep fluency in the "alphabet soup" of modern identity—specifically OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SPIFFE/SPIRE—and how they apply to machine-to-machine communication.
Scale & Performance: Experience building distributed systems that handle high-volume, short-lived credentials where latency is a critical failure point.
Security Mindset: A background in Zero Trust principles, with a specific focus on Just-in-Time (JIT) access and minimizing the blast radius of compromised workloads.
Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation: Deep understanding of how automated agents interact with cloud infrastructure and the unique security challenges posed by autonomous actors.
Extensibility: Experience building and maintaining plugin-based architectures or SDKs that allow for broad ecosystem integration.
Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex security concepts to both technical contributors and executive leadership.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Identity Innovation: Experience contributing to or implementing emerging standards for Non-Human Identity (NHI) and machine-first authorization frameworks.
Autonomous Systems Experience: Familiarity with the security challenges inherent in AI agent orchestration, LLM-based workflows, or autonomous robotic process automation (RPA).
Dynamic Governance: Background in building automated policy-as-code engines or real-time remediation systems that respond to behavioral anomalies.
Hardware-Rooted Security: Conceptual or practical knowledge of hardware-backed trust anchors, such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) or Secure Enclaves, for workload attestation.
Ecosystem Influence: Previous experience engaging with open-source security communities or standards bodies to help shape the future of digital identity.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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