Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

Job summary

Responsibilities

The largest, most demanding enterprises run on Baseten, and they bring exacting requirements for how people, services, and agents access the platform. This is the founding role for our identity and authorization team within enterprise engineering.

• Lead identity and authorization projects from problem definition and technical design through implementation, launch, and iteration.
• Design authorization and credential models that support critical user workflows today and can be safely extended as the platform evolves.
• Partner with product, design, and customer-facing teams to turn enterprise security requirements into durable technical solutions.
• Establish engineering practices for quality, security, observability, and operational ownership.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship as the team grows.

What they're looking for

• 4-5+ years of experience building production backend systems, including hands-on design and implementation of a product authorization system: per-resource or per-object…
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership: you've taken a system from first design through implementation, production rollout, and iteration with users.
• Experience developing and operating multi-tenant systems at scale, where authorization checks sit in the request path and latency and consistency matter.
• Comfort working across the full stack, from product and application code to cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Tech stack

• Spark
• Kubernetes
• Python