Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise Security and Identity Tooling

Nscale; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive US compensation package

Human-First Flexibility

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Nscale is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to develop internal platforms and services that enhance enterprise security and identity efficiency. You will work collaboratively with various teams to create tools that improve security workflows and automation, ensuring faster, measurable security practices.

The position requires strong backend engineering skills and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience. A competitive compensation package is offered alongside a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, building, testing, and operating production services.
• Familiarity with identity and access concepts like SSO, OAuth, SCIM.
• Experience with privileged access, JIT workflows, and audit ready tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build internal software services and integrations across various security systems.
• Automate access workflows and entitlement cleanup processes.
• Improve reliability of security tooling through various engineering standards.
• Connect identity and access events with security telemetry.

Skills

Backend engineering skills in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript

APIs and data modeling

Integrating SaaS platforms

Strong security fundamentals

Ability to work through ambiguity

Education

8+ years of professional software engineering experience

Job description

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost‑effective, high‑performance infrastructure for AI start‑ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI‑focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

About The Role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build the internal platforms, services, integrations, and automation that make enterprise security and identity work at startup speed. This is a hands‑on software engineering role within the Enterprise Security and Identity function, focused on building the tooling that connects identity, access, SaaS, endpoint posture, privileged workflows, security telemetry, compliance evidence, and automation into a reliable operating model. You will work closely with Enterprise Security, IT, Cyber Defence, Platform Engineering, Product Engineering, GRC, and infrastructure teams. Your work will turn security intent into working systems that make security faster, more measurable, and easier for builders to adopt.

What you'll be doing

Internal Platforms and Integrations

• Build internal software services and integrations across identity, access, SaaS, endpoint, privileged access, security data, and workflow systems
• Design backend APIs, data models, and integration patterns for users, devices, groups, roles, applications, permissions, owners, exceptions, and audit trails
• Integrate third‑party systems and internal tools through APIs, webhooks, queues, events, and workflow engines
• Establish practical source‑of‑truth boundaries and ownership across connected systems

Access and Lifecycle Automation

• Automate joiner, mover, leaver workflows, access requests, entitlement cleanup, approvals, revocation, and evidence capture
• Create workflow automation that gives engineers fast access when justified while removing access when no longer needed
• Support identity‑aware tooling for SSO, SCIM, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, service accounts, non‑human identities, and privileged access paths
• Prioritize tooling improvements around JML, privileged access, non‑human identities, and access evidence with the Identity and Access lead

Reliability and Operational Excellence

• Improve security tooling reliability through testing, observability, error handling, retries, idempotency, deployment safety, and operational runbooks
• Define engineering standards for code review, testing, deployment, observability, secrets handling, and runbooks
• Map high‑value workflows that are currently manual, fragile, or poorly integrated
• Build reusable internal services and integrations that reduce manual work and create measurable security evidence

Telemetry, Auditability, and Guardrails

• Connect identity and access events with security telemetry and reporting to support detection, investigation, audit, and executive metrics
• Preserve clear evidence across access and approval workflows to support compliance and operational review
• Implement guardrails for AI and agentic workflows, including approval, attribution, logging, least privilege, and safe write paths
• Ship meaningful workflow improvements such as access automation, revocation automation, identity evidence capture, entitlement cleanup, or SaaS onboarding automation

KPIs

• Access automation and revocation workflow delivery
• Reduction in manual enterprise security and identity work
• Audit‑ready evidence capture coverage
• Reliability of security tooling and integrations

About You

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent depth building production software systems
• Strong backend engineering skills in Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, or similar modern languages
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating production services or internal platforms
• Strong understanding of APIs, data modeling, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and operational excellence
• Experience integrating SaaS platforms, enterprise tools, internal services, or third‑party systems through APIs, webhooks, queues, events, or workflow engines
• Familiarity with identity and access concepts such as SSO, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, MFA, service accounts, or access reviews
• Strong security fundamentals across authentication, authorization, secrets handling, audit logging, least privilege, and secure software development
• Ability to work through ambiguity, make sound technical tradeoffs, and turn messy operational needs into maintainable software
• Experience building identity, access, security, compliance, IT automation, developer productivity, or internal platform tooling is preferred
• Experience with privileged access, JIT workflows, approval systems, lifecycle automation, entitlement management, non‑human identity governance, or audit‑ready evidence tooling is preferred

What we can offer you

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months
• Join one of the fastest‑growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross‑functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support
• Human‑First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments

Equal Opportunities Statement

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio‑economic backgrounds.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

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The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management.

Salary Range

$200,000—$250,000 USD

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job‑related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.