Staff Privileged Access & Automation Engineer

Nscale; United States; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + bonus + equity

Equity opportunities

Dynamic progression plan

Flexible workplace

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on Privileged Access and Access Automation. You will build privileged access workflows across enterprise systems and design JIT and break-glass controls to enable secure, auditable, time-bound elevation for engineers.

You’ll define practical governance, automate evidence collection, and drive reduction of standing privileges. This role emphasizes automation, collaboration across IT, and strong security fundamentals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in identity security, privileged access, security engineering, infrastructure security, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience designing or operating privileged access, JIT, break-glass, access request, approval, or access review workflows.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, SSO, MFA, access governance, admin tiering, and least privilege.
• Experience automating access workflows, entitlement cleanup, evidence collection, or revocation processes.
• Strong scripting, workflow automation, API integration, or platform engineering skills.
• Ability to translate access risk into practical controls that engineering and operations teams will adopt.

Responsibilities

• Build privileged access workflows across enterprise SaaS admin roles, production systems, cloud consoles, infrastructure management systems, source control, data platforms, endpoint admin, and emergency access paths.
• Design access patterns that support request, approval, justification, time-bound elevation, and automated revocation.
• Define practical controls that reduce reliance on permanent admin rights across high-risk environments.
• Establish clean audit trails for privileged access activity across critical systems.

Skills

Identity security

Privileged access

Security engineering

Automation scripting

RBAC / SSO / MFA

Auditing / governance

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on Privileged Access and Access Automation. You will build privileged access workflows across enterprise systems and design JIT and break-glass controls to enable secure, auditable, time-bound elevation for engineers.

You’ll define practical governance, automate evidence collection, and drive reduction of standing privileges. This role emphasizes automation, collaboration across IT, and strong security fundamentals.