Senior Engineer, Agentic Identity
BaselayerRisk Management company
San Francisco, United States$230,000 – $340,000Senior
Torch Capital
Afore Capital
Comma Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and ship a cryptographic identity substrate for AI agents.
- •Baselayer is building KYA (Know Your Agent)
- •a cryptographic identity substrate that replaces self-assertion with third-party-issued credentials, verifiable by any counterparty.
- •This role involves owning a significant part of this substrate and shipping it to production.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and maintain the runtime issuer/mint, including OAuth Token Exchange and JWS credentials.
- •Own and evolve the wire format and claim registry.
- •Implement sub-millisecond JWS verification at the HTTP edge.
- •Build and maintain Passport, the user's cloud-resident principal account.
- •Develop operator integration for onboarding and webhook delivery.
- •Requirements Shipped systems where cryptographic correctness was load-bearing (e.g., OAuth/OIDC IdP, token issuer).
- •Fluent in Python and Go, or strong in one with a track record of learning the other quickly.
- •Deep understanding of identity vs. authorization, mandate vs. claim, and snapshot vs. live state.
- •Production experience with async Python on Postgres.
Required skills
PythonGoOAuthJWTPostgreSQLFastAPIGoogle Cloud
Domain expertise
fintechdeveloper-toolsai
Benefits & perks
Equity, Flexible PTO, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, HSA contributions, Gym stipend
Tech stack
PythonGoFastAPIOAuthJWTPostgreSQLGoogle CloudCloud Run