# Software Engineer, Identity Platform at OpenRouter

- Company: OpenRouter
- What the company does: The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
- Company website: https://openrouter.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $215K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/8930eaba-071f-4b08-b598-306cb691b0d4?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-software-engineer-identity-platform/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-software-engineer-identity-platform/