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 funding. 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-mindness
  • 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.

The Role

We’re looking for a driven and innovative Database Engineer to help shape the future of our open-source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database, built to manage security-critical application permissions. In this role, you'll leverage your knowledge in database engineering to push the boundaries of performance, scalability, and efficiency in 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 Do

• Research, design, implement, test and release new database features and enhancements.
• Troubleshoot correctness, stability or performance issues related to statement planning and execution in a complex distributed system.
• Drive Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM).
• Apply indexing, partitioning, and caching strategies to improve query efficiency and overall database performance.
• Contribute to both our open source  and enterprise database product, SpiceDB.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and support teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with system-level languages like Golang, C/C++, Rust or Zig.
• Familiarity with database concepts, and how they are implemented: compilers, indices, query planning, optimization, materialized views, etc.
• Solid foundation with systems engineering fundamentals including distributed systems, operating systems, databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a desire to learn and grow.
• Effective communication skills for working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams across time zones. 

Nice to Have:

• Master’s level coursework in database systems.
• Experience with Golang.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and managing databases in cloud-native environments.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices (CI/CD, Docker, Git) and authorization systems.

Role will close on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 12pm ET.

Given our background, we build upon a foundation of using open source, cloud-native solutions to deliver our products.

We've given some webinars discussing parts of our stack:

• Building a managed database service with Kubernetes Operators
• Running Low-latency Workloads on Kubernetes

Here are some keywords:

• Go
• TypeScript
• Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Operators
• NextJS
• Pulumi
• CockroachDB
• Cloud Spanner
• PostgreSQL
• Prometheus
• Thanos
• ArgoCD