2 months ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$240k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead identity and authorization projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Design authorization and credential models for users, service accounts, agentic workloads, and enterprise access policies.
- Build low-latency, consistent, and secure authorization capabilities for high-volume, multi-tenant systems.
- 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 identity and authorization team grows.
Requirements
- 4–5+ years of experience building production backend systems, including hands-on design and implementation of fine-grained product authorization systems.
- Experience with per-resource or per-object permissions, relationship-based access control, policy engines, or Zanzibar-style authorization systems such as OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or Cedar.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of systems from initial design through implementation, production rollout, and user-driven iteration.
- Experience developing and operating multi-tenant systems at scale where authorization checks are in the request path and latency and consistency are important.
- Comfort working across product and application code as well as cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with Python and Go.
- Preferred experience operating OpenFGA, SpiceDB, or a similar authorization deployment in production.
- Preferred working knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, and SCIM at the protocol level.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break, with offices closed from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
- Company-facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups and related learning and networking opportunities.
Tech Stack
About Baseten
Baseten builds an AI inference platform that provides tooling, infrastructure, and hardware to deploy, scale, and serve machine-learning models in production. The company sells managed model serving and developer tooling to software teams at AI product companies, with customers including Notion, Abridge, Writer, and Cursor. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on high-availability, globally distributed inference for production workloads.