Baseten
Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization
$165K–$330K
San Francisco +4 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Toronto
New York
Montreal
Seattle - Experience
- 4-5+ years
About the job
Build and lead Baseten’s identity and authorization systems, including fine-grained permissions, credentials, and enterprise administration tools.
What you'll do
- Lead identity and authorization projects from design through launch and iteration.
- Design authorization and credential models that support enterprise workflows and can evolve safely.
- Partner across teams and establish practices for security, quality, observability, and operational ownership.
What they ask for
- 4-5+ years building production backend systems, including hands-on design and implementation of a product authorization system.
- End-to-end ownership of a system from initial design through production rollout and iteration with users.
- Experience developing and operating multi-tenant systems at scale where authorization latency and consistency matter.
- Comfort working across product and application code through cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with Python and Go.
- Production experience with OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or similar; working knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM protocols.
Pay
$165K – $330K (USD, base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Kubernetes, OpenFGA, SpiceDB, Cedar, OAuth, OIDC
AI focus
Develop identity and authorization capabilities for users, services, and agentic workloads, including task-scoped agent credentials.
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