Baselayer
Technology
SeniorEngineer,AgenticIdentity
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“Senior Engineer, Agentic Identity at Baselayer. Skills: Agentic Identity, Cryptographic substrate, KYC/KYB. Build and maintain runtime issuer/mint. Own and evolve wire format and claim registry”
Industry & Context.
Real-time entity resolution; Graph AI problem; Retrieval problem; Fraud-modeling problem
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Shipped systems where cryptographic correctness was load-bearing, Fluent in Python and Go, Reads RFCs as primary sources, Deep understanding of identity vs authorization, Production experience with async Python on Postgres
Nice to Have
Verifiable credentials / SSI / DID work, Certificate Transparency, Trillian, or similar, KYC/KYB pipeline experience, Edge/CDN engineering, Familiarity with AP2, x402, MPP, UCP, or Mastercard VI specs
What You'll Do.
Build and maintain runtime issuer/mint
Own and evolve wire format and claim registry
Implement sub-millisecond JWS verification
Build and maintain Passport
Develop operator integration
Work across Python 3.13 monorepo
Work across Go for performance-critical components
Full Job Description
ABOUT BASELAYER Every business in America needs a bank account to exist. The system that decides whether they're real, who's behind them, and whether they're a risk, runs on infrastructure from the 1980s. We're rebuilding that layer from scratch. Baselayer is the identity layer for institutions across the United States — the most complete business graph in America and every human tied to it. We fuse public records, IRS data, sanctions lists, web signals, and fraud telemetry from 2,200+ financial institutions into a single graph that resolves any business and the humans behind it in milliseconds. The legacy credit bureaus took 50 years to build something that gets 60% match rates. We've built something that gets 98% in under two years. Today we're trusted by over 20% of financial institutions in America — including FIS, Rho, Socure and leading loan infrastructure providers. But the graph is becoming infrastructure for anyone who needs to know if a business is real and worth trusting: gig platforms, marketplaces, AI companies, and commerce infrastructure at scale. Trust is the substrate of every financial transaction. We're rebuilding it. ABOUT THE TEAM We're solving real-time entity resolution at a scale no one else has cracked — fusing dozens of data sources into a single business identity graph and resolving any entity in milliseconds. It's a graph AI problem, a retrieval problem, and a fraud-modeling problem stacked on top of each other. The technical depth is real. You'd be joining a small team where the data moat is defensible, the research problems are open, and the infrastructure you build becomes load-bearing for businesses. Ownership is real. Velocity is real. There's no layer of process between an idea and shipping it. We're at an inflection point — the graph is built, the match rates speak for themselves, and the hardest problems are still ahead: graph embeddings, fraud propagation models across the business network, real-time traversal at sub-100ms latenc
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