Staff Engineer
AlphaSense2 days ago
Base Salary
$202k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve authorization systems using RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Design and evolve authentication systems across multiple use cases, including the Auth0 integration.
- Build user management capabilities for creating, provisioning, and managing identities and entitlements.
- Partner with security teams to align platforms with secure-by-design principles, SOC2, and GDPR requirements.
- Design and implement scalable identity systems supporting a growing customer base.
- Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
- Build self-service GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for internal product engineering teams.
- Drive projects autonomously from North America while collaborating with the Helsinki-based team.
- Champion testing, observability, and reliability practices across the platform.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale.
- Staff-level backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Maven.
- Experience with SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, REST, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Knowledge of RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML 2.0, enterprise SSO federation, and SCIM.
- Experience designing scalable platform or product-platform systems and working with security teams.
- Ability to shape roadmaps, drive execution autonomously, and collaborate across distributed teams.
- Commitment to automated testing, event-driven architecture, observability, and reliability.
- Nice to have: Auth0, SpiceDB or Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2 or GDPR experience.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- Roles are based in North America with collaboration across time zones with the Helsinki team.
Tech Stack
About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.