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About the role
Every request that flows through OpenRouter starts with a question: who is this, and what are they allowed to do? Millions of developers, thousands of organizations and a growing fleet of autonomous agents reach us through API keys, browser sessions, OAuth apps, MCP clients and federated cloud workloads. The credential formats differ, but every one of them has to resolve to the same trustworthy answer. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years building production identity, authentication or authorization systems at a SaaS, developer-platform or security company
- Deep fluency in identity standards: OAuth 2.x (PKCE, token exchange, dynamic client registration), OIDC, SAML, SCIM and JWTs, and the ways they break in practice
- Experience designing authorization models (RBAC, ABAC or ReBAC) for multi-tenant B2B products, including migrating a live system from ad-hoc checks to a unified model
- Hands-on experience integrating enterprise identity providers (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace) and an auth platform (Clerk, Auth0, WorkOS or similar)
- Strong TypeScript and SQL. Comfortable with Postgres and building low-latency, cache-heavy services on a critical request path
- A security mindset. You think in threat models, design for least privilege and can explain your decisions to an enterprise security reviewer
More about this role
OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers—without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve.
As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.
Every request that flows through OpenRouter starts with a question: who is this, and what are they allowed to do? Millions of developers, thousands of organizations and a growing fleet of autonomous agents reach us through API keys, browser sessions, OAuth apps, MCP clients and federated cloud workloads. The credential formats differ, but every one of them has to resolve to the same trustworthy answer.
We're hiring our first Software Engineer, Identity Platform to envision, build and own identity across OpenRouter's inference gateway, marketplace and rapidly growing suite of agentic products. You will define how people, organizations, workspaces,...
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