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Senior Software Engineer

AuthZed · United States · Remote

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About AuthZed

Remove authorization bottlenecks, empower your team to innovate and expand with best-in-class performance at any scale. Backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator and Amplify.

About the role

At AuthZed, we’re building the infrastructure that makes fine-grained authorization possible at scale. We are the creators of SpiceDB, the open-source permissions database inspired by Google Zanzibar, as well as a growing ecosystem of open-source and commercial products built around it.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience working in programming languages like Golang, python, Java. Experience with Go is a plus
  • Strong Systems engineering background (e.g. distributed systems, operating systems, databases)
  • Experience building and debugging complex production systems where correctness, reliability, and performance matter
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and managing distributed databases in cloud-native environments
  • Experience with modern software development practices and tools, such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), Docker, and Git
More about this role

We are the creators and maintainers of SpiceDB and the authorization infrastructure that companies around the world depend on to keep their engineering teams focused on what matters most - their own product.

We are a Series A company, fixing broken access control with products that eliminate complex permission management while delivering enterprise-scale performance and consistent access control.

We are a fully remote company with employees across the US, Canada, and Europe. We’re a hardworking and close-knit group with a software-driven culture (yep, even our GTM team understands and loves this technology)! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day.

Agency: Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made.

Collaboration: Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you...

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