Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Security

The role

You will operate production infrastructure and advance infrastructure security. You will build automation, secure defaults, and platform-level guardrails for the authorization infrastructure.

What you will do

• Operate AuthZed's production infrastructure.
• Advance infrastructure security including Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and service-to-service communication.
• Secure the software supply chain including CI/CD, dependencies, container images, build artifacts, provenance, vulnerability scanning, and deployment controls.
• Build security into the platform through automated guardrails, policies, and secure defaults.
• Evolve vulnerability management for containers, dependencies, infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Improve detection and response by expanding security telemetry, logging, alerting, and detection capabilities.
• Respond to incidents and participate in the SRE on-call rotation.
• Partner with engineering on architecture, infrastructure design, and threat modeling.
• Help shape security engineering strategy and technical security expertise.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience operating production systems as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, or Security Engineer.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized production environments.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and its security model.
• Strong understanding of IAM, workload identity, networking, TLS/PKI, encryption, secrets management, and cloud-native security.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing, operating, and securing CI/CD and software delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Linux and container security fundamentals.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production incident response.
• Strong software engineering skills and an inclination to solve operational and security challenges through automation.
• Strong security judgment and the ability to evaluate risk in the context of real-world distributed systems.
• Ability to operate independently, drive projects across engineering boundaries, and provide technical leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience operating distributed databases or other stateful distributed systems in production.
• Experience securing multi-tenant SaaS or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience contributing to security architecture, threat modeling, penetration testing, or security assessments.
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certified Information Systems Security Pro

Benefits

• 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 and location
• Stock options.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance.
• A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different time zones
• Twice-yearly travel for team off-sites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

About the company

AuthZed is the creator and maintainer of SpiceDB and authorization infrastructure. It is a fully remote company with employees across the US, Canada, and Europe.