Baseten

Software Engineer - Identity and Authorization

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3 hours ago
Toronto, Canada +3 moreMid Level / Senior
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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.
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About Baseten

201-500 employees

Inference is everything. Baseten is an AI infrastructure platform giving you the tooling, expertise, and hardware needed to bring great AI products to market - fast. Our proprietary Inference Stack utilizes the cutting-edge of performance research combined with highly performant and reliable infrastructure to give you out-of-the-box global availability with 99.99% of uptime.

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