Are you ready to shape the future of authentication? Join 1Kosmos and help lead the next wave in identity assurance and passwordless innovation.
1Kosmos is driving the future of identity security, empowering organizations to eliminate passwords and establish trust at every step of the identity lifecycle. As a vibrant team of innovators, we develop advanced authentication solutions trusted by some of the world’s leading brands. Join us as we create a passwordless world and set new standards for digital identity assurance.
Your Title: Engineering Manager, Authentication Platform
Your Location: Hybrid – Edison, NJ HQ
You Report to: SVP of Engineering and Chief Architect
Compensation: $180,000 or more depending upon experience
At 1Kosmos, we are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead technical execution across our Authentication (Auth) Platform, the passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication, SSO, and access services that sit in the login path for millions of users. This is for someone who stays close to the code, brings sound technical judgment, and turns product requirements into secure, highly available, and shippable solutions.
You will guide a distributed team of 4-6 engineers based in India while working closely with Product and the Head of Engineering from our Edison office. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will set architectural direction, make design decisions, remove delivery blockers, uphold release quality, and step into the codebase when the team or situation calls for it.
You bring an “always sleeveless” mindset: no issue is too small to investigate, no production incident is beneath you, and no architectural decision should be made without understanding the system that exists today.
What you will do:
Steer architecture and design: Understand the existing Auth Platform deeply — authentication flows, identity federation, session and token services, and integrations and guide the team toward technically sound designs that align with current capabilities and the longer-term architectural direction.
Turn product needs into executable engineering work: Partner with Product early to shape requirements, clarify trade-off s, sequence work, and translate feature requests into practical, well-defined engineering plans.
Own Auth Platform delivery: Keep incoming work organized, priorities clear, dependencies visible, and commitments on track across passwordless login, MFA, SSO, and customer integrations.
Lead through technical credibility: Participate actively in design discussions, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving. Step into the codebase and contribute directly when needed to validate an approach, unblock a critical effort, or resolve a production issue.
Set the release-quality bar: Establish and uphold standards for design review, code quality, test readiness, performance, security, standards compliance, and release decisions.
Own production outcomes: Authentication is in the critical path of every user session. Participate directly in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for Auth services, with a focus on availability and login latency.
Build secure, reliable systems: Drive sound engineering decisions across Node.js microservices, identity protocols, cloud-based SaaS deployments, Kubernetes, AWS, observability, performance, and platform resilience.
Guide and unblock the team: Provide daily technical direction, remove obstacles, facilitate effective delivery discussions, and help engineers make good decisions without becoming a status only manager.
Bring a point of view: Make timely, well-reasoned technical decisions amid ambiguity, clearly communicate trade-offs, and constructively challenge approaches when needed.
Foster collaborative execution: Work closely with Product, QA, Security, and engineering peers to create a low-ego environment where ownership, rigor, and delivery matter.
What you bring:
10+ years of software engineering…