Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

The role

You will own the identity and access layer of the Baseten platform. This includes designing and building a fine-grained authorization system, credential systems, and admin experiences for enterprise IT teams.

What you will do

• 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 today and can be safely extended as the platform evolves.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn 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.

Required qualifications

• 4-5+ years of experience building production backend systems, including hands-on design and implementation of a product authorization system: per-resource or per-object permissions, relationship-based
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership: you've taken a system from first design through implementation, production rollout, and iteration with users.
• Experience developing and operating multi-tenant systems at scale, where authorization checks sit in the request path and latency and consistency matter.
• Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python and Go.
• Experience running an OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or similar deployment in production, beyond a proof of concept.
• Working knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM at the protocol level.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• (U.S. only) 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break (our offices are closed from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day!)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• (U.S. only) Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies. They enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production.