Senior Software Engineer – Control Plane

🕒 January 17

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AuthZed

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🔌 API

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

API • Cybersecurity • SaaS

AuthZed is a company that specializes in authorization infrastructure, providing a centralized permissions platform that simplifies complex permission management for software applications. With its product, SpiceDB, AuthZed enables engineering teams to reclaim time and resources by eliminating authorization silos and enhancing user experiences through consistent access control. AuthZed focuses on delivering enterprise-scale performance, flexibility, and strong security guarantees, empowering businesses to adapt to changing requirements without compromising on reliability or scalability.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AuthZed Cloud’s control plane. • Build and operate Kubernetes-native systems, including custom operators and controllers, to manage customer environments and infrastructure lifecycle. • Design durable, idempotent workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, scaling, and deletion. • Implement and integrate authentication and identity flows (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC) in a secure, multi-tenant SaaS environment. • Implement and evolve usage-based billing systems. • Engineer distributed systems that behave correctly under partial failure, retries, concurrency, and long-running operations. • Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to design APIs and workflows that result in clear, reliable user experiences. • Ensure services are observable and operable through structured logging, metrics, and alerts. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues involving orchestration, authentication, or state management. • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident resolution and post-incident improvements. • Document APIs, workflows, system behavior, and operational guidelines.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field. • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and kubernetes • Experience with distributed systems and cloud native technologies such as kubernetes • Strong Kubernetes experience, including designing or operating controllers/operators. • Experience implementing or integrating authentication systems (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC). • Experience working with relational databases and transactional data models. • Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems • Excellent communication and collaboration skills: proven ability to build alignment across teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience • Stock options at an early-stage startup • Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance • A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones • Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!