Identity & Authorization Architect – Enterprise (Equity)

Baseten; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & equity

US-only health coverage for employee &

Flexible PTO including Winter Break

Paid parental leave

Fertility and family-building stipend

401(k)

Exposure to ML startups

Job summary

Baseten is the platform powering AI companies by delivering scalable identity and authorization capabilities. As the founding member of the identity and authorization team, you will own the authorization model, credential systems, and admin experiences used by enterprise IT teams to govern access for organizations like Harvey, HubSpot, and Notion.

You will design and build Baseten's fine-grained authorization system from the ground up to support current workflows while enabling the platform to

Qualifications

• 4-5+ years of experience building production backend systems with hands-on design and implementation of a product authorization system.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Fine-grained authorization

Per-resource permissions

Policy engine

OpenFGA / SpiceDB / Cedar

Python and Go

Kubernetes

Multi-tenant systems

Latency-sensitive backend

End-to-end ownership

Tools

OAuth

OIDC

SCIM

Job description

Baseten is the platform powering AI companies by delivering scalable identity and authorization capabilities. As the founding member of the identity and authorization team, you will own the authorization model, credential systems, and admin experiences used by enterprise IT teams to govern access for organizations like Harvey, HubSpot, and Notion.

You will design and build Baseten's fine-grained authorization system from the ground up to support current workflows while enabling the platform to