Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Databases

🕒 November 6, 2025

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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

• Research, design, implementation, testing and release for new database features and enhancements. • Troubleshooting correctness, stability and performance issues related to statement planning and execution within a complex distributed system. • Driving Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM). • Indexing, partitioning, and caching strategies to improve query efficiency and overall database performance. • Contributions to both our open source and enterprise database product, SpiceDB. • Collaboration closely with product, engineering, and support teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience. • 5+ years of experience working in system-level languages like Golang, C/C++, Rust or Zig. • In-depth knowledge of database concepts, and how they are implemented: compilers, indices, query planning, optimization, materialized views, etc. • Strong Systems engineering background (e.g. distributed systems, operating systems, databases). • Proven ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and propose creative solutions. • Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams across time zones. • Familiarity with modern software development practices and tools, such as continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), Docker, and Git.

🏖️ Benefits

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