Software Engineer for Identity and Authorization

Baseten is an AI inference platform for deploying, optimizing, and scaling custom, open-source, and fine-tuned models in production.

Series F+Recently funded
San Francisco, United States
About Baseten

Baseten provides model runtimes, inference infrastructure, developer workflows, and deployment options including managed cloud, self-hosted, and hybrid environments.

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About the Role

You will lead the design and implementation of identity, authorization, and credential systems. You will build low-latency permission checks, secure enterprise access workflows, governance controls, and operational practices while mentoring others as the function grows.

Requirements

  • 4-5+ years building production backend systems
  • Experience designing and implementing product authorization systems with fine-grained permissions or policy engines
  • End-to-end ownership from system design through production rollout and iteration
  • Experience operating multi-tenant systems at scale with authorization in the request path
  • Experience working across application code, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

  • Lead identity and authorization projects from definition through launch and iteration
  • Design extensible authorization and credential models
  • Translate enterprise security requirements into durable technical solutions
  • Establish engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for U.S. employees and dependents
  • Flexible PTO and company-wide winter break
  • Paid parental leave
  • Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
  • Company-facilitated 401(k) for U.S. employees