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Principal Engineer - Machine Identity

Additional office locations
Sydney
Job ID
20785
Date
24-Feb-2026
Permanent - Full time, Senior
Job category
Technology - Security
We're the team that enables secure service-to-service authentication at enterprise scale. We architect machine identity systems, X.509 certificate patterns, and authentication integration layers across Macquarie - ensuring every service, API, and workload across our services can authenticate securely without human intervention. We design how workload identity integrates with human IAM, cloud platforms, and API gateways to create unified zero-trust architecture.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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You'll architect machine identity as the future of authentication at Macquarie through systems thinking and integration design. You'll solve challenging problems - how workload identity integrates with human IAM, cloud platforms, API gateways, and service meshes; how to design X.509 certificate patterns that work at scale; how to architect authentication that spans multiple identity layers. You'll design integration architectures backed by working prototypes, challenge legacy patterns with better approaches, and use cryptography as a tool to solve authentication problems.

What you offer

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  • You've architected and operated workload identity platforms at enterprise scale—provisioning, rotating, and revoking identities for thousands of services across distributed systemsYou connect identity layers that traditionally operate in silos: human IAM, application auth (OAuth/OIDC), cloud IAM (AWS/Azure/GCP), and API gateways work together as unified zero-trust architecture
  • You know when machine identity should replace secrets, when to use certificates vs tokens, and how to architect federation; you prove your views with working code and production data
  • You ship production code (Python, Go), review architecture, debug distributed auth failures, and mentor engineers; you influence through working systems, not presentations
  • You experiment with emerging identity patterns, engage with the community, and bring new approaches into the organization ahead of demand
  • You understand PKI, X.509, JWTs, and signing well enough to architect secure identity systems on top
  • Experience in workload identity platform implementation at enterprise scale, identity federation experience, service mesh or API gateway auth integration, or open-source contributions in identity or zero-trust projects will be highly regarded
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year
  • Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
  • Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
  • Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.