Base Power Company
Software Engineer, Backend (Security)
Austin, TX
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Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $119,642 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- The Identity Provider and Authorization team decides who - and what - can access Base's systems.
- Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
- Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate Okta as Base's workforce identity provider - SSO, SAML/OIDC app integrations, SCIM provisioning, and joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle automation.
- Design authentication policy (MFA, device assurance) and authorization primitives (RBAC, least-privilege role catalog, break-glass access) that other teams can safely build on.
- Define and maintain entitlements-as-code: every role, group mapping, and access grant lives in the GitOps monorepo as a reviewable pull request.
- Build workload and headless identity infrastructure - private CA/PKI, AWS Roles Anywhere, GCP WIF-X509, and hardware-backed key custody (Secure Enclave, TPM, YubiKey).
- Define Identity Assurance Level requirements, per NIST SP 800-63-3, for internal, partner, and service-to-service access.
- Partner with IT, security, and application teams to keep identity, groups, and tokens as the shared foundation, while apps continue to own their own authorization business logic.
- This role will own the platform layer that turns fragmented, ad hoc access into a single, auditable identity system.
Skills
- workforce SSO, cloud federation, entitlements-as-code, and workload identity backed by a governed PKI.
Compensation
- $63k-$800k
Company info
- Base is America's next-generation power company.
- We're rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization-electricity-by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today's fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.
- We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
- We build and operate the workforce identity provider, federate access to cloud and internal infrastructure, define entitlements as code, and issue workload identity from a single governed PKI.
- Our scope spans internal and partner access today, with customer-facing (CIAM) and fine-grained ABAC still being scoped, plus the service-to-service and headless identity that keeps Base's growing fleet of software and devices secure.
- Application teams own their own authorization business logic - we supply the identity, groups, and tokens they build on.
- This is a rare opportunity to build the identity layer for one of the fastest-scaling energy companies in the country, from close to zero.
- Please note:
- Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly.
- First Principles Thinking:
- Question assumptions.
- Principles > rules.
This listing is sourced directly from Base Power Company's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.