Staff Engineer
AlphaSense2 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve authorization systems using RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Design, build, and evolve authentication systems and work closely with the Auth0 integration.
- Build and operate user management, provisioning, identity, and entitlement systems for AlphaSense’s customer base.
- Partner with security teams to implement secure-by-design platforms aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements.
- Design scalable systems and self-service GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for product engineering teams.
- Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
- Drive projects autonomously from Canada 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.
- Strong backend 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 with event-driven architecture patterns and TDD or a strong commitment to automated testing.
- Ability to shape roadmaps, drive execution autonomously, and collaborate effectively across time zones.
- Interest in security and experience partnering with security teams on secure-by-design systems.
- Auth0 experience is a preferred qualification.
- SpiceDB or Zanzibar-style authorization system experience is preferred.
- Apollo Federation and OpenTelemetry experience are preferred.
- Experience in SOC2- and/or GDPR-compliant environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity may be offered.
- Generous benefits program.
- Role is based in Canada and collaborates closely with a Helsinki-based team in a distributed, cross-time-zone setup.
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.