Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

Highlights

• Founding role owning Baseten's identity and access layer for enterprises.
• Build fine-grained authorization for users, service accounts and agents.
• Design low-latency permission checks for highly regulated workloads.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity (U.S. only)
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO including company-wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot (U.S. only)
• Company-facilitated 401(k)

Ideal candidate

Security-minded backend builder who loves owning complex access systems end-to-end and partnering closely with enterprise users to deliver precise, trustworthy authorization.

Requirements

• 4-5+ years building production backend systems including hands-on design of product authorization system with per-resource permissions, ReBAC, policy engine, or Zanzibar-style fine-grained auth
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from design through implementation, production rollout and iteration with users
• Experience developing and operating multi-tenant systems at scale with authorization checks in request path where latency and consistency matter
• Comfort working across full stack from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure