Staff Engineer building AlphaSense’s identity, authentication, authorization, and user management platform. Scaling secure APIs and infrastructure for enterprise market - intelligence customers.
About the role
- Staff Engineer building AlphaSense’s identity, authentication, authorization, and user management platform. Designing secure, scalable APIs for enterprise market-intelligence software.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the authorization platform using RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC
- Design, build, and evolve the authentication platform across multiple use cases, including collaboration with the Auth0 integration
- Design, build, and evolve the user management platform for creating, provisioning, and managing user identities and entitlements
- Partner with security teams to ensure platforms are secure by design and aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements
- Design and implement highly scalable systems for growing users and customers
- Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management
- Build self-service systems and GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for product engineering teams
- Drive projects autonomously from North America while aligning with the Helsinki-based team
- Champion testing, observability, and reliability practices
Requirements
- Genuinely senior, self-sufficient engineer
- Strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale
- Experience in a platform/product-platform engineering context ideally
- Experience with Java 2X, Spring Boot 3.X.X, WebFlux, and Maven
- Experience with SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, and REST
- Experience with 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
- TDD or a genuine passion for automated testing
- Genuine interest in security
- Comfortable partnering with security teams on secure-by-design systems
- Comfortable working in a distributed, cross-timezone setup from North America with a Helsinki-based team
- Nice to have: Auth0, SpiceDB/Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2/GDPR-compliant environments
Benefits
- Equity may be offered
- Generous benefits program
- Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with protected disabilities, as required by applicable laws
- Equal-opportunity employment commitment
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