Senior Staff Security Engineer, Identity (CISO Office) - Nscale - Seattle, WA

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. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work.

If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About The Role We're hiring a Senior Staff Security Engineer, Identity to define and lead Nscale's identity and access architecture at scale. This is a high-impact role focused on shaping how identity, authentication, and authorization operate across infrastructure, platform, and internal systems. You'll set long-term technical direction, design foundational systems, and partner closely with engineering leadership as well as infrastructure, platform, and security teams to embed identity into every layer of the stack.

Your work will directly influence how Nscale secures highly distributed systems, supports safe multi-tenant workloads, and builds scalable identity primitives for both humans and services. This role matters because identity is a foundational part of secure, scalable infrastructure—and you'll help define how it evolves across the company. What you'll be doing Identity strategy and architecture Define Nscale's identity vision and multi-year roadmap in line with platform and infrastructure strategy.

Set the long-term technical direction for identity, authentication, and authorization across core systems.

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