The Role

At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of building AuthZed commercial products in the dynamic and rapidly evolving infrastructure and authorization space, aimed to manage security-critical application permissions.

This isn’t just another engineering role — it’s a chance to shape the future of our platform and drive innovation in a startup environment where your expertise and creativity will leave a lasting impact. You'll work alongside a team of passionate engineers, solving challenging problems in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and authorization models, while contributing directly to the success of customers using AuthZed’s products worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Innovator and Creator
  • Research, design, implement, test and release new features and enhancements for AuthZed’s commercial products.
  • Drive Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM).
• Champion of Quality: Drive best practices in software development, testing, and CI/CD to ensure our platform is robust, scalable, and always on the leading edge.
• Embrace the "operate what you build" philosophy, taking end-to-end ownership of your work - from development and deployment to production operations, and participate in on-call rotation.
• Problem Solver: Troubleshoot correctness, stability or performance issues related to statement planning and execution in a complex distributed system.
• Continuous Improver: Proactively identify opportunities to optimize processes, streamline operations, and elevate team performance.
• Collaborator and Mentor: Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams.
• Storyteller: Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing AuthZed as a thought leader in the industry.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience working in programming languages like Golang, python or Java. Experience with Go is a plus.
• Strong Systems engineering background (e.g. distributed systems, operating systems, databases). 
• 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 with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A proven ability to thrive in remote-first, cross-time-zone teams, collaborating effectively to deliver impactful results.

Nice to have

• Experience with kubernetes and experience writing 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.