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About the role
About AuthZed:
We are the creators and maintainers of SpiceDB and the authorization infrastructure that companies around the world depend on to keep their engineering teams focused on what matters most - their own product.
We are a Series A company, fixing broken access control with products that eliminate complex permission management while delivering enterprise-scale performance and consistent access control.
AuthZed is a fully remote company with employees across the US, Canada, and Europe. We’re a hardworking and close-knit group with a software-driven culture (yep, even our GTM team understands and loves this technology)! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a driven and innovative Senior Software Engineer, experienced in distributed databases to help shape the future of our open-source database, SpiceDB. SpiceDB is 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 for both 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 own:
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Research, design, implementation, testing and release for new database features and enhancements.
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Troubleshooting correctness, stability and performance issues related to statement planning and execution within a complex distributed system.
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Driving Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM).
