Software Engineer, Identity Platform

present of AI; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

present of AI is seeking a software engineer to design and maintain identity-focused backend services, including authentication, authorization, accounts, and access control. The role emphasizes secure data modeling and the ability to turn vague enterprise requirements into reliable systems.

This position sits at the intersection of AI services and a gateway-style identity platform, offering hands-on exposure to API keys, auth flows, and access management within a scalable backend.

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience focused on identity or security systems.
• Strong data modeling and secure design practices.
• Ability to translate vague enterprise needs into reliable auth and access control solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain authentication, authorization, accounts and access control systems.
• Translate vague enterprise requirements into reliable, scalable identity-platform solutions.
• Ensure security and data modeling best practices across backend systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Security-minded design

Data modeling

API keys

Auth flows

Access control

Job description

A software engineer on an identity platform typically builds and maintains the systems that handle authentication, authorization, accounts, and access control. A strong candidate brings solid backend engineering, a careful approach to security and data modeling, and the ability to turn vague enterprise requirements into clear, reliable systems. At a company routing requests across many AI providers, that work likely touches API keys, access rules, and account structures that developers and businesses depend on.

How it fits the AI era

Identity work is becoming more central as AI products serve many models, keys, and business customers, so the plumbing behind access and permissions matters more. AI tools can speed up coding, testing, and review, but the judgment about security tradeoffs, edge cases, and clean system design stays with the engineer. The role rewards people who can use AI to move faster while keeping trust and safety in mind.

How it builds AI experience

This role offers hands on exposure to identity and access systems at a company whose product is an AI model gateway, which is useful ground for anyone building AI era engineering skills. A candidate can strengthen that by learning how API keys, auth flows, and access control work, and by practicing careful use of AI coding tools on real backend work.

Worth showing

• Auth and access control
• Security minded design
• API key systems

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About OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a unified API gateway and marketplace that routes requests across hundreds of AI models from many providers, per the company.