Staff Engineer

Job Description:

• Design, build, and evolve the authorization platform using RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC
• Design, build, and evolve the authentication platform across multiple use cases, including collaboration with the Auth0 integration
• Design, build, and evolve the user management platform for creating, provisioning, and managing user identities and entitlements
• Partner with security teams to ensure platforms are secure by design and aligned with SOC2 and GDPR requirements
• Design and implement highly scalable systems for growing users and customers
• Define the long-term roadmap across authentication, authorization, and user management
• Build self-service systems and GraphQL, gRPC, and REST APIs for product engineering teams
• Drive projects autonomously from North America while aligning with the Helsinki-based team
• Champion testing, observability, and reliability practices

Requirements:

• Genuinely senior, self-sufficient engineer
• Strong experience building and operating identity, authentication, or authorization platforms at scale
• Experience in a platform/product-platform engineering context ideally
• Experience with Java 2X, Spring Boot 3.X.X, WebFlux, and Maven
• Experience with SQL, GraphQL, gRPC, and REST
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Knowledge of RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC; OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML 2.0, enterprise SSO federation, and SCIM
• Experience with event-driven architecture patterns
• TDD or a genuine passion for automated testing
• Genuine interest in security
• Comfortable partnering with security teams on secure-by-design systems
• Comfortable working in a distributed, cross-timezone setup from North America with a Helsinki-based team
• Nice to have: Auth0, SpiceDB/Zanzibar-style authorization systems, Apollo Federation, OpenTelemetry, and SOC2/GDPR-compliant environments

Benefits:

• Equity may be offered
• Generous benefits program
• Reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with protected disabilities, as required by applicable laws
• Equal-opportunity employment commitment