Software Engineer, Identity

Scale AI; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking an experienced engineer to support the design and development of core identity systems. You will manage authentication and authorization processes, ensuring security compliance across enterprise systems.

Qualified candidates should have over 4 years of engineering experience focused on infrastructure, hands-on skills with tools like OpenFGA, and a strong understanding of SaaS-based security standards.

Comprehensive compensation includes a base salary between $216,000 and $270,000, along with benefits and equity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialities in infrastructure and identity systems.
• Hands-on experience with authorization frameworks at scale.
• Strong understanding of authentication standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and implementation of identity infrastructure for secure authentication.
• Manage authentication mechanisms like SSO and MFA.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and industry regulations.

Skills

Infrastructure and identity systems

Distributed systems

Authentication standards (OAuth 2.0, OIDC)

Communication skills

Education

4+ years of engineering experience

Tools

OpenFGA

AWS

SAML

Job description

Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. To make them safe, aligned and actually useful, these models need human eval and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) during pre-training, fine-tuning, and production evaluations. This is the main innovation that’s enabled ChatGPT to get such a large headstart among competition.

At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI.

At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will help support the design and development of core platforms and software systems, while supporting identity, access management, authorization, and authentication. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive the design, and implementation of our identity infrastructure to ensure secure authentication and authorization across enterprise systems.
• Manage authentication mechanisms such as Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and federated identity solutions (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Manage authorization mechanisms such as Relation-based access control (ReBAC), Attribute-based access control (ABAC), Role-based access control (RBAC).
• Work with auditors and security teams to enforce identity governance policies to ensure compliance with security policies, industry regulations (e.g., NIST, SOC2, ISO 27001), and organizational standards.
• Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on identity management and best practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialities in infrastructure and identity systems.
• Hands-on experience working with OpenFGA, Authzed, Cedar, Topaz, or similar authorization frameworks at scale.
• Strong understanding of Zanzibar-based ReBAC models, relationship tuples, and access control evaluation.
• Strong knowledge of authentication standards such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and JWT.
• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Show a track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects.
• Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience securing API access and implementing access control mechanisms at the application level.
• Multi-cloud infrastructure experience – AWS, Azure, GCP, and more.
• Proficiency in integrating IAM solutions with applications built using frameworks such as Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $216,000 - $270,000 USD.

Compensation packages include base salary, equity, and benefits. Employees receive comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, generous PTO, and a commuter stipend.

Equal Opportunity & Accessibility

We are an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity, or veteran status. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance, contact us at [e-mail]. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

Pay Transparency

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