authzed

About AuthZed: 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. AuthZed is 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. Company Values: 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 cannot arrive at the best possible solution. Open-mindedness: Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate. About the Role: In this role, you'll collaborate with the Lead Developer Advocate to shape advocacy strategy, quarterly priorities, and long-term vision. You'll define and track success metrics for advocacy initiatives, iterating based on developer engagement and product outcomes. You'll act as a technical authority for our products and technologies, producing opinionated technical content (e.g. webinars, tutorials, sample apps, reference architectures, and integrations) and serve as a conduit of feedback to Product/Engineering by turning external observations into actionable recommendations. You'll regularly engage with developers in physical communities (like KubeCon) and via social media channels (Reddit, Linkedin, HackerNews, DevTo). You'll be the voice of all things AuthZed, nurturing community engagement to foster adoption of SpiceDB OSS and our enterprise services. What you’ll own: Major portions of our developer advocacy execution, translating high-level strategy into impactful, measurable programs Our North American presence at industry conferences and meetups Gathering product feedback from the open source community What you bring: 3+ years in a developer relations, developer experience, or community role 2+ years experience in a programming role A deep understanding of working with commercial open source projects Experience working with developers and building community following on social media Have helped teach developers by producing live streams, creating videos, and by speaking at meetups/conferences Comfort wearing many hats, often context switching between them in the same workday Ability to work effectively in a remote setting often during travel Extra shine: Familiarity with database technologies and relationships to their communities Familiarity with AI technologies and relationships to their communities Life at AuthZed: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a rapidly growing sector. A supported environment where your ideas lead to real impact. Competitive salary based on experience. Stock options at an early-stage startup. Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance. A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

About AuthZed: We’re pioneering open-source authorization solutions for scaling businesses tackling complex end-user permissions in zero-trust architectures. Our focus is on providing SpiceDB—the most mature open-source permissions database inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system—and building managed services that enable planet-scale production authorization services. Our strategic approach to capital-raising has empowered us to efficiently utilize our $3.9M seed fund. We’ve developed SpiceDB, now the open source standard in authorization database technology, fortified our reputation as authorization experts, accelerated our open-source community growth, and are scaling revenue with robust enterprise products. AuthZed is a fully remote company with employees across the US and Europe. We’re a hardworking group with a software-driven culture; even our sales team understands and loves our technology! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day. Company Values: 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 cannot arrive at the best possible solution. Open-mindedness: Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate. About the Role: At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. AuthZed Cloud is an Authorization Infrastructure as a Service, designed to power real-time access control for production applications. Authorization decisions sit on the critical path of customer systems, which means correctness, performance, and availability are foundational requirements. The control plane manages how customer authorization infrastructure is provisioned, secured, configured, and evolved over time. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, Kubernetes-native platforms, security-sensitive domains, and billing-critical workflows. You’ll collaborate closely with frontend engineers, SRE, and Product to ensure AuthZed Cloud is reliable, secure, and transparent for customers. What you’ll own: Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AuthZed Cloud’s control plane. Build and operate Kubernetes-native systems, including custom operators and controllers, to manage customer environments and infrastructure lifecycle. Design durable, idempotent workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, scaling, and deletion. Implement and integrate authentication and identity flows (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC) in a secure, multi-tenant SaaS environment. Implement and evolve usage-based billing systems . Engineer distributed systems that behave correctly under partial failure, retries, concurrency, and long-running operations. Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to design APIs and workflows that result in clear, reliable user experiences. Ensure services are observable and operable through structured logging, metrics, and alerts. Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues involving orchestration, authentication, or state management. Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident resolution and post-incident improvements. Document APIs, workflows, system behavior, and operational guidelines. What you bring: Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field.

About AuthZed: 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. AuthZed is 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. About the Role: We’re looking for a driven and innovative Senior Software Engineer, experienced in distributed databases to help shape the future of our open-source database, SpiceDB. SpiceDB is built to manage security-critical application permissions. In this role, you'll leverage your deep expertise in database engineering to push the boundaries of performance, scalability, and efficiency for both SpiceDB OSS and Enterprise. You’ll focus on low-latency query optimization, refining database architecture, and ensuring the system is robust and reliable for large-scale, mission-critical applications. What you'll own: Research, design, implementation, testing and release for new database features and enhancements. Troubleshooting correctness, stability and performance issues related to statement planning and execution within a complex distributed system. Driving Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM). Indexing, partitioning, and caching strategies to improve query efficiency and overall database performance. Contributions to both our open source and enterprise database product, SpiceDB. Collaboration closely with product, engineering, and support teams. What you bring: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience. 5+ years of experience working in system-level languages like Golang, C/C++, Rust or Zig. In-depth knowledge of database concepts, and how they are implemented: compilers, indices, query planning, optimization, materialized views, etc. Strong Systems engineering background (e.g. distributed systems, operating systems, databases). Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and propose creative solutions. Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams across time zones. Familiarity with modern software development practices and tools, such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), Docker, and Git. Extra shine: Master’s level coursework in database systems. Experience with Golang. Experience with cloud infrastructure and managing databases in cloud-native environments. Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models. Life at AuthZed: Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology in a rapidly growing sector. A supportive environment where your ideas lead to real impact. Competitive salary based on experience. Stock options at an early-stage startup. Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (in the US) and other insurance. A fully remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different time zones. Twice-yearly travel for team offsites, focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!