# Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management at Confluent

- Company: Confluent
- What the company does: Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with a unified Data Streaming Platform built on the heritage of Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®. Backed by Battery, Index and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.confluent.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $222K to $261K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/39143513-ad4c-41fb-86ed-b939a66e53d2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/confluent-staff-security-risk-and-compliance-program-manager-access-management/

## About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Staff Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager - Access Management to join our Trust & Security team. This senior role owns Confluent's internal access management program and leads its evolution toward machine and workload identity — service-to-service (S2S) authentication, non-human identity (NHI), and access controls for AI agents — as the next frontier of least-privilege security for the Confluent Cloud platform.

## What they're looking for

- Deep expertise in identity and access management concepts: least privilege, separation of duties, RBAC/ABAC, just-in-time (JIT) and privileged access management (PAM), and access review/certification
- Working knowledge of machine and workload identity — service-to-service authentication, non-human identity, service accounts, secrets/key management, and emerging AI-agent access patterns
- Strong security engineering fundamentals across cloud infrastructure security controls in GCP, AWS, and/or Azure, including Kubernetes and cloud control-plane access models
- Familiarity with identity platforms and access tooling (e.g., Okta, JIT/access-orchestration tooling) and how access controls are enforced in production
- Tooling and Automation: Experience integrating access processes, controls, or findings into GRC and access-orchestration platforms, and a bias toward automating access decisions over manual operations
- Strong project management and organizational skills

Tags: Engineering