Staff Identity & Access Platform Engineer

AlphaSense, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 202,400 - 278,300; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous benefits program

Job summary

AlphaSense, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Access Management. This remote role covers the full identity lifecycle—creating and provisioning users, authenticating them, and authorizing what they can do—for our growing customer base.

You will collaborate with security teams to ensure SOC2 and GDPR alignment, work with Helsinki-based engineers, and drive scalable, self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) across North American time zones.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale.
• Strong security-focused mindset and collaboration with security teams.
• Willing to work across time zones North America and Helsinki.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve our authorization platform (RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC).
• Design, build, and evolve our authentication platform, including Auth0 integration.
• Design, build, and evolve our user management platform—creating, provisioning, and managing user identities and entitlements.
• Partner with security teams to ensure SOC2 and GDPR alignment.
• Design scalable systems that keep pace with growing users and customers.
• Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management.
• Build self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST).
• Drive projects autonomously from North America while aligning with Helsinki team.
• Champion testing, observability, and reliability.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

WebFlux

Maven

SQL

GraphQL

gRPC

REST

RBAC/ABAC

OAuth 2.0/OIDC/JWT

SAML 2.0/SSO

SCIM

Event-driven

TDD/Automated testing

Tools

Auth0

OpenTelemetry

Job description

AlphaSense, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Identity & Access Management. This remote role covers the full identity lifecycle—creating and provisioning users, authenticating them, and authorizing what they can do—for our growing customer base.

You will collaborate with security teams to ensure SOC2 and GDPR alignment, work with Helsinki-based engineers, and drive scalable, self-service APIs (GraphQL, gRPC, REST) across North American time zones.