Staff Security Engineer, Privileged Access (PAM)

Role description

Role Overview

Nscale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer focused on Privileged Access and Access Automation to build Nscale's privileged access operating model across enterprise systems. The role is critical because standing privilege is one of the highest-risk patterns in a fast-growing infrastructure company.

What You Will Do

The Staff Security Engineer will build privileged access workflows, design access patterns, establish clean audit trails, implement JIT access patterns, and drive entitlement cleanup and stale privilege reduction through automation.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in identity security, privileged access, security engineering, infrastructure security, or related engineering roles, and strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, SSO, MFA, access governance, admin tiering, and least privilege.

Requirements

• 7+ years in identity security, privileged access, security engineering, infrastructure security, or related engineering 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
• Ability to work across enterprise systems, production environments, SaaS platforms, IT, infrastructure, and compliance stakeholders
• Experience with service accounts, non-human identities, workload identities, API tokens, automation accounts, or secrets governance
• Experience securing production access, source control administration, data platforms, cloud administration, or endpoint admin workflows
• Experience designing access evidence for audit, customer assurance, or incident response

Benefits

• Competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity)
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation
• Medical, dental, vision insurance