Founding Identity & Authorization Engineer

Baseten; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k) employer match

Learning and networking opportunities

Job summary

Baseten in San Francisco is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the identity and authorization layer for enterprise customers. You will design and build a fine-grained authorization system, manage per-resource permissions, and ensure low-latency checks at high request volumes across the platform.

Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to translate security requirements into durable technical solutions, establish engineering practices, and mentor growing teammates.

Qualifications

• 4-5+ years building production backend systems with a fine-grained authorization system.
• End-to-end ownership from design through production rollout and iteration.
• Experience operating multi-tenant systems where latency and consistency matter.
• Comfort working across the full stack from product and application code to cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend systems

Latency-sensitive design

Multi-tenant systems

Cloud & Kubernetes

Tools

OpenFGA

SpiceDB

Cedar

Job description

Baseten in San Francisco is seeking a senior backend engineer to own the identity and authorization layer for enterprise customers. You will design and build a fine-grained authorization system, manage per-resource permissions, and ensure low-latency checks at high request volumes across the platform.

Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to translate security requirements into durable technical solutions, establish engineering practices, and mentor growing teammates.