Senior Identity & Access Platform Engineer

AlphaSense; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Private healthcare

Flexible working arrangements

Office visit once a week

Vacation and other benefits

Job summary

AlphaSense, based in Helsinki with a distributed team, is hiring a Senior Engineer for the User Management platform. You will own authentication, authorization, and user provisioning at scale, collaborating with security teams to ensure secure-by-design systems and SOC2/GDPR compliance.

You will design and operate robust identity services, build self-service APIs, and help shape the roadmap across all three domains while working in a flexible, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with experience building and operating identity platforms at scale.
• Strong security focus and collaboration with security teams.
• Comfortable working in a Helsinki-based, distributed team and taking technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve our authorization platform (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC) to tell what each user can do.
• Design, build, and evolve our authentication platform across use cases, collaborating with our Auth0 integration.
• Design, build, and evolve our user management platform for provisioning and entitlements across the customer base.
• Partner closely with security teams to ensure authentication, authorization, and user management are secure by design and compliant with SOC2 and GDPR.
• Design and implement scalable systems to support a growing number of users and customers.
• Shape the roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management while executing key initiatives.
• Build self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) for product engineering teams.
• Collaborate with other teams and ensure platform reliability and observability.
• Champion strong testing and reliability practices across the platform.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

WebFlux

Maven

SQL

GraphQL

gRPC

REST

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Helm

RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC

OAuth 2.0/OIDC/JWT

SAML 2.0 SSO

SCIM

Event-driven architecture

Testing (TDD)

Tools

Auth0

SpiceDB

Zanzibar-style authorization

Apollo Federation

OpenTelemetry

Job description

AlphaSense, based in Helsinki with a distributed team, is hiring a Senior Engineer for the User Management platform. You will own authentication, authorization, and user provisioning at scale, collaborating with security teams to ensure secure-by-design systems and SOC2/GDPR compliance.

You will design and operate robust identity services, build self-service APIs, and help shape the roadmap across all three domains while working in a flexible, hybrid environment.