Senior Software Engineer – U.S. or EU; remote at AuthZed

The Role

At Auth Zed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of building Auth Zed 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 Auth Zed’s products worldwide.

• Research, design, implement, test and release new features and enhancements for Auth Zed’s commercial products.
• Drive Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM).
• 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.
• Troubleshoot correctness, stability or performance issues related to statement planning and execution in a complex distributed system.
• Proactively identify opportunities to optimize processes, streamline operations, and elevate team performance.
• Work closely with other engineers, product, and support teams.
• Showcase your work through technical documentation, blogs, and talks, representing Auth Zed as a thought leader in the industry.

• 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.

• 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.