Director, Customer Identity and Access Management
About the role
Nscale is hiring a Director of Identity to lead the engineering function accountable for authentication, authorisation, and identity propagation across the platform - for humans, agents, and workloads. Identity sits on the critical path of every API call and every Console, SDK, or CLI action: when we are slow, the platform is slow; when we are wrong, we create significant security and reputational risk.
This is a high impact role with scope across Product, Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, and Security. You will set direction, hire and grow a high-performing team, and own end-to-end outcomes: a secure sign-in experience, consistent and auditable access control, and a paved road that makes secure patterns the default.
You’ll operate as a player‑coach: technically deep enough to make high-leverage architectural calls, and organisationally strong enough to align stakeholders and ship iteratively without compromising correctness.
What you’ll work on
- Authentication & federation: login/session flows, token issuance and exchange, key management, identity verification, and enterprise federation (SSO, SCIM, group/role sync, outbound federation).
