Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management
AlphaSense2 months ago
Base Salary
$202k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve authorization, authentication, and user-management platforms.
- Create scalable systems for a growing number of users and customers.
- Build self-service GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for product engineering teams.
- Partner with security teams to align platforms with secure-by-design principles, SOC2, and GDPR requirements.
- Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
- 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 is sought.
- Backend experience with Java, Spring Boot, WebFlux, and Maven is required.
- Experience with SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, and REST is required.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Helm is required.
- Knowledge of RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML 2.0, enterprise SSO federation, and SCIM is required.
- Experience with event-driven architecture patterns and TDD or a strong commitment to automated testing is expected.
- Security interest and experience partnering with security teams on secure-by-design systems are expected.
- Auth0, SpiceDB or Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2 or GDPR environments are nice-to-have qualifications.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- The role is based in North America and involves close 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.