Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management
AlphaSense2 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the authorization platform using RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Design, build, and evolve authentication systems across multiple use cases in collaboration with the Auth0 integration.
- Build and operate user management systems for creating, provisioning, and managing user identities and entitlements.
- Partner with security teams to implement secure-by-design systems aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements.
- Design highly scalable systems that support a growing number of users and customers.
- Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
- Build self-service GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for product engineering teams.
- Drive projects autonomously from Canada while coordinating closely with the Helsinki-based team.
- Champion testing, observability, and reliability practices across the identity platform.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale is required.
- Experience in a platform or product-platform engineering context is preferred.
- Expertise with Java, Spring Boot, WebFlux, Maven, SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, REST, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Helm is expected.
- Experience with RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML 2.0, enterprise SSO federation, and SCIM is expected.
- Experience with event-driven architecture patterns and test-driven development or a strong commitment to automated testing is expected.
- Auth0, SpiceDB or Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2 or GDPR environments are nice to have.
- Candidates should be self-sufficient, comfortable shaping roadmaps and driving execution autonomously, interested in security, and able to collaborate across time zones.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- The role is based in Canada and involves collaboration with a Helsinki-based team across time zones.
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.