Software Engineer - Identity and Authorization

Baseten
San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 240,000 - 285,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Collaboration","End-to-end ownership","Security focus"]

Own the identity and authorization layer for Baseten’s enterprise platform. Design and build fine-grained authorization, credential systems, and admin experiences that support multi-tenant access at high request volume with low-latency permission checks and strong security guarantees. Lead projects from problem definition through implementation and production rollout, working closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams while establishing engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.

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Software Engineer - Identity and Authorization

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Job Summary

Own the identity and authorization layer for Baseten’s enterprise platform. Design and build fine-grained authorization, credential systems, and admin experiences that support multi-tenant access at high request volume with low-latency permission checks and strong security guarantees. Lead projects from problem definition through implementation and production rollout, working closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams while establishing engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
Location: San Francisco, Toronto, New York, Montreal
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead identity and authorization projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
  • •Design authorization and credential models that support critical user workflows and can be safely extended as the platform evolves.
  • •Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to translate enterprise security requirements into durable technical solutions.
  • •Establish engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
  • •Provide technical leadership and mentorship as the team grows.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 240,000 - 285,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •4-5+ years building production backend systems, including hands-on design and implementation of an authorization system with per-resource/per-object permissions, relationship-based access control, or a fine-grained policy engine (e.g., Zanzibar, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, Cedar).
  • •End-to-end ownership of a system from initial design through implementation, production rollout, and iteration with users.
  • •Experience building and operating multi-tenant systems at scale where authorization checks are on the request path and latency and consistency matter.
  • •Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • •Preferred: experience with Python and Go; and production experience running OpenFGA/SpiceDB; working knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM at the protocol level.
Experience:4+ years
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipCollaborationEnd-to-end ownershipSecurity focus
Tech Stack:OpenFGASpiceDBCedarZanzibarOAuthOIDCSCIMKubernetesPythonGoSingle sign-onPolicy engineRelationship-based access control

Company Brief

Baseten
Baseten provides an inference-first ML infrastructure platform that lets engineering and ML teams deploy, serve, and scale machine-learning models with optimized performance, autoscaling, and GPU-backed hosting for production AI applications. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baseten?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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