Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Database

We're looking for a driven and innovative Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Database 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 deep expertise 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.

About authzed 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.