Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Software Engineer in Identity & Authorization to design and maintain systems that decide who can access what, including permission models and credential handling.

You will work on a cloud inference platform serving enterprise customers, emphasizing secure, scalable access control and admin tooling. A strong backend focus and careful reasoning about security are essential.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains identity and authorization systems including permission models, credential handling, and admin tools.
• Designs access rules that scale with the product and stay secure and correct.

Job description

Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

A software engineer in identity and authorization typically builds and maintains the systems that decide who can access what, including permission models, credential handling, and admin tools. A strong candidate brings solid backend engineering skills, care for security and correctness, and the ability to design access rules that stay clear as a product grows. At a cloud inference platform serving enterprise customers, that work supports the controls IT teams rely on to govern access.

How it fits the AI era

AI tools speed up writing and reviewing code, generating tests, and exploring permission edge cases, so more time can go to design and judgment. The core of this work stays human: deciding how access should be modeled, weighing security tradeoffs, and owning the consequences when a rule is wrong. Trust in an identity layer is earned through careful reasoning, not generated text.

How it builds AI experience

Working here builds familiarity with how AI platforms are deployed and governed, including the access needs of enterprise buyers. That experience comes from hands on work on authorization models and credential systems, plus learning how AI services are served at scale. It is a useful base for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of security and AI infrastructure.

Worth showing

• Security minded code review
• Enterprise access controls

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About Baseten

High-performance cloud inference platform for deploying, serving, and scaling open-source and custom artificial intelligence models.