Staff Identity Governance Engineer (AI)

Location: AMER; Houston, Seattle, New York, or San Francisco

Base salary: $170,000–$230,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and/or commission.

Company

Nscale provides high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers, reducing the complexity of AI development.

What you will do

• Stand up and operate the identity governance platform, including licensed Okta Identity Governance and other tools under consideration.
• Build service-desk access request flows with app-owner approval and configure time-bound access expiry.
• Design and run quarterly privileged-access and annual standard-access review campaigns, including automatic revocation.
• Govern Tier Zero SaaS administrator roles across Okta, Google Workspace, and GitHub with the privileged access engineer.
• Define persona-based birthright access, app ownership data, and separation-of-duties controls.
• Produce tool-generated evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and SOX and explain it to auditors while driving adoption with app owners and managers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in identity or security engineering, including at least 4 years implementing identity governance.
• Implementation experience with Okta Identity Governance, SailPoint, Saviynt, ConductorOne, Opal, Lumos, or similar platforms.
• End-to-end experience designing and running access reviews and certifications, including revocation.
• Experience with role or persona modelling, birthright rules, and separation of duties.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SOX access controls and the evidence auditors require.
• Scripting and API integration skills for applications without native connectors.
• Ability to secure adoption of access reviews and approvals among app owners and managers and explain supporting evidence to auditors.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, innovative environment focused on ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy to shape the workday.
• Performance reviews every 12 months and a progression plan tailored to individual ambitions.
• Potential medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan benefits.
• Equal-opportunity environment with accommodations available for individual situations.