Staff Engineer — Identity Platform (Remote Canada)

Alphasense; Helsinki; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home opportunities

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a genuinely senior Staff Engineer to lead identity, authentication, and authorization platforms at scale. You’ll help design secure-by-design systems, work autonomously, and partner with Helsinki-based teams while expanding Canada follow-the-sun coverage.

You’ll own end-to-end platform pillars—user management, authz, and authn—building scalable APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) and collaborating across timezone. Security, SOC2 and GDPR compliance are core to every decision.

Qualifications

• Senior staff-level engineering role focused on identity, authentication and authorization platforms.
• Security-by-design mindset with SOC2 and GDPR considerations.
• Ability to collaborate across time zones with Helsinki-based teams.
• Experience building scalable, self-serve identity solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve identity, authentication and authorization platforms at scale.
• Own long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization and user management.
• Build self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) for product engineering teams.
• Work autonomously while coordinating with security teams to ensure secure-by-design implementations.

Skills

Identity platforms

Security by design

Distributed teams

Autonomous execution

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

REST

OpenTelemetry

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a genuinely senior Staff Engineer to lead identity, authentication, and authorization platforms at scale. You’ll help design secure-by-design systems, work autonomously, and partner with Helsinki-based teams while expanding Canada follow-the-sun coverage.

You’ll own end-to-end platform pillars—user management, authz, and authn—building scalable APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) and collaborating across timezone. Security, SOC2 and GDPR compliance are core to every decision.