Staff Engineer
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AlphaSenseIdentity management
Location: Remote - United States, Distributed, cross-timezone setup; collaborating closely with a Helsinki-based teamFull-TimeStaff
Salary$202,400 — $278,300 USD
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSGraphQLSQLJavaKubernetesSpring BootgRPCRESTful APIs
Requirements
- Bring strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale.
- Be self-sufficient and able to shape a roadmap and drive execution largely autonomously.
- Have backend experience with Java 2X, Spring Boot 3.X.X, WebFlux, and Maven.
- Have experience with SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, and REST.
- Have experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Know authorization models and protocols including RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT.
- Know SAML 2.0 and enterprise SSO federation, including assertion validation, signature and encryption handling, and IdP- versus SP-initiated flows.
- Have experience with SCIM for user provisioning and deprovisioning.
- Understand event-driven architecture patterns; have TDD experience or a genuine passion for automated testing.
- Be comfortable partnering with security teams and working in a distributed, cross-timezone setup with a Helsinki-based team.
- Auth0, SpiceDB or Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2 or GDPR environments are nice to have.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the authorization platform using RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC.
- Design, build, and evolve the authentication platform across use cases, working with the Auth0 integration.
- Design, build, and evolve user management for creating, provisioning, and managing identities and entitlements.
- Partner with security teams to ensure platforms are secure by design and aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements.
- Design and implement scalable systems for a growing number of users and customers.
- Help 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 across the platform.
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