Staff Engineer

AlphaSense; Oregon; Híbrido; USD 202 000 - 278 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

AlphaSense is seeking a highly senior Staff Engineer to own and evolve its identity, authentication, and user management platforms at scale. You will shape architecture, drive secure-by-design implementations, and collaborate with a Helsinki-based team while coordinating with North America functions.

You will design and implement RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC authorization, authentication patterns (including Auth0), and provisioning workflows, ensuring security and reliability across a growing customer base

Qualificações

• Experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale.
• Platform/product-platform engineering context is a plus.
• Able to work autonomously with a Helsinki-based team and collaborate with North America counterparts.
• Security by design mindset with SOC2 and GDPR awareness.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and evolve authorization platform (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC).
• Design, build, and evolve authentication platform (Auth0 integration).
• Design, build, and evolve user management platform (provisioning and entitlements).
• Partner with security teams to ensure SOC2 and GDPR compliance.
• Build scalable systems to support growing users and customers.
• Define long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
• Build self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST).
• Drive projects autonomously from North America with Helsinki alignment.
• Champion testing, observability, and reliability practices.

Conhecimentos

Java 2.x

Spring Boot

WebFlux

Maven

SQL

GraphQL

gRPC

REST

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Helm

RBAC/ABAC

OIDC/JWT

SAML 2.0

SOC2/GDPR

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About AlphaSense

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market‑moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high‑quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real‑time information quickly. For more information, visit Come join us.

About the Team

The User Management team owns the full identity lifecycle at AlphaSense — from creating and provisioning users, through managing their identities, to authenticating who they are and authorizing what they can do in the system. Our work spans three core domains:

• User Management — creating, provisioning, and managing user identities
• Authentication — verifying who users are
• Authorization — determining what users can do in the system

We are a product platform team, not a product team: we build the identity and access infrastructure that other engineering teams build on top of, rather than shipping user‑facing features ourselves. We also act as a security guardrail for AlphaSense, since identity and access sit at the center of how the platform stays secure. The team is well‑established and senior, based in Helsinki, Finland. We're now expanding into North America — with roles based in both Canada and the US — to build follow‑the‑sun coverage, so our customers get proper support around the clock, and to push deliberately toward a true platform model — scaling our authentication and authorization systems so they can be safely self‑served by teams across the company.

About the Role

This is a Staff Engineer role on the team that manages identity and access for AlphaSense's entire, and constantly growing, customer base, and that nearly every product engineering team depends on for user and entitlement data. You'll work across all three pillars of identity: creating and managing users, authenticating them, and authorizing what they can do — designing systems built to scale with a constantly growing number of users. Security is core to this role, not adjacent to it — you'll work closely with our security teams to make sure what we build is secure by design, in an environment governed by SOC2 and GDPR. We're looking for a genuinely senior, self‑sufficient engineer with strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale, ideally in a platform/product‑platform engineering context. This is someone who doesn't just execute a roadmap, but helps understand the needs behind it, shapes it, and then drives execution — largely autonomously, and in close collaboration with our core team based in Helsinki. You're genuinely interested in security, comfortable partnering closely with security teams on secure‑by‑design systems, and comfortable working in a distributed, cross‑timezone setup — based in North America, collaborating closely with a Helsinki‑based team.

Who You Are

• Backend: Java 2X, Spring Boot 3.X.X, WebFlux, Maven
• Data & APIs: SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, REST
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Helm
• Identity & Security Protocols: RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC; OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT; SAML 2.0 and enterprise SSO federation (assertion validation, signature/encryption handling, IdP‑vs. SP‑initiated flows); SCIM for user provisioning and deprovisioning
• Engineering Practices: Event‑driven architecture patterns; TDD or a genuine passion for automated testing

Nice to Have

• Auth0 experience
• SpiceDB / Zanzibar‑style authorization system experience
• Apollo Federation
• OpenTelemetry
• Experience operating within SOC2 and/or GDPR‑compliant environments

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and evolve our authorization platform (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC), enabling teams across the company to answer "what can this user do?"
• Design, build, and evolve our authentication platform, covering authentication patterns across our range of use cases, working closely with our Auth0 integration
• Design, build, and evolve our user management platform — creating, provisioning, and managing user identities and entitlements — supporting our entire customer base
• Partner closely with security teams to ensure our authentication, authorization, and user management platforms are secure by design and aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements
• Design and implement highly scalable systems that keep pace with a constantly growing number of users and customers
• Help define the long‑term roadmap across all three domains — authentication, authorization, and user management — not just execute against one handed to you
• Build self‑service systems and APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) that make authentication, authorization, and user data consumable by product engineering teams across the company
• Drive projects autonomously from North America while staying closely aligned with our Helsinki‑based team
• Champion strong testing, observability, and reliability practices across the platform

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below. You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program.

Compensation Range

$202,400—$278,300 USD

AlphaSense is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense's commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non‑merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.