Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will work on SpiceDB and other open-source projects across the AuthZed ecosystem. You will tackle problems involving distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and authorization.

What you will do

• Research, design, implement, test, and release features across SpiceDB and other open-source AuthZed projects.
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD.
• Take end-to-end ownership of work from development to production operations.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Troubleshoot correctness, stability or performance issues in a complex distributed system.
• Collaborate with users and contributors and review contributions.
• Identify opportunities to optimize processes and elevate team performance.
• Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams.
• Showcase work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go is a plus.
• Experience building kubernetes controllers or operators.
• Familiarity with database concepts, and how they are implemented: compilers, indices, query planning, optimization, materialized views, etc.
• Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models.

Benefits

• Competitive pay tailored to your experience.
• Early-stage startup stock options.
• Healthcare (for US team members).
• Insurance plans.
• Twice-yearly offsites.

About the company

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