NIKE, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to help define the future of enterprise authorization. This role will lead the transformation from fragmented, application-specific access controls to a modern authorization platform where access decisions are defined as policy, evaluated centrally, and consistently enforced across Nike’s global technology organization.
Position Location & Schedule
This position is based at Nike’s worldwide campus headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. The role follows a 4/1 hybrid schedule: Monday through Thursday in the office, with Fridays optionally worked from the Nike campus or home office. Remote work is available except in South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Who You’ll Work With
Nike’s Enterprise Identity & Access Management team enables secure digital experiences across workforce, consumer, partner, and machine identity ecosystems. The Principal Engineer partners with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering leaders to shape authorization capabilities used across Nike’s global technology organization.
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, experience, or training in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale software platforms and distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in authorization architectures, identity and access management, authentication, identity governance, and privileged access concepts.
- Experience designing centralized policy decision services, policy enforcement architectures, and policy-as-code solutions.
- Ability to influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and drive architectural transformation across multiple organizations.
- Hands-on software engineering experience, including writing and maintaining production code and deploying distributed systems in high-availability, multi-region production environments.
What You’ll Work On
- Define and drive enterprise authorization architecture, standards, patterns, and engineering practices.
- Lead the transition from application-specific roles, permissions, and user exceptions to centralized policy decision services and reusable authorization capabilities.
- Design and implement policy-based authorization solutions that express business, security, and compliance requirements as code.
- Partner with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, and Product Engineering teams to embed authorization, governance, and identity controls into the software development lifecycle.
- Develop shared services, frameworks, and platforms supporting workforce, consumer, partner, and machine identities.
- Mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and help teams adopt scalable authorization and identity capabilities.
- Modernize legacy access management approaches and create policy-driven solutions for secure digital experiences.
- Write production code and apply enterprise-level coding practices to build and deploy core authorization services.
Compensation
The annual base salary ranges from $149,100.00 in the lowest geographic market to $313,900.00 in the highest geographic market. Actual salary varies based on location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
Additional Information
Nike offers interview accommodations, a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional development. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.