Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Authzed Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions to support Authzed’s products and growing customer base.
• Monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues to ensure optimal reliability and uptime.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi.
• Continuously improve system reliability, security, and efficiency through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues in both production and test environments.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to design and implement resilient, scalable, and secure systems.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to production incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• Document system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guidelines to ensure knowledge sharing and operational consistency.
• Work with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes to manage and scale services.
• Utilize monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack to observe system health and drive improvements.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve distributed system failures and performance degradation.
• Engage with Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration across engineering workflows.
• Integrate and maintain continuous integration and deployment systems to enable rapid, reliable releases.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of SDKs for NodeJS, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go by ensuring underlying infrastructure supports their performance and reliability.
• Leverage experience with distributed SQL databases such as Google Cloud Spanner or CockroachDB to optimize data layer reliability and scalability.
• Operate within a fully remote, globally distributed team with flexible scheduling across US, Canada, and European timezones.
• Participate in twice-yearly team offsites focused on collaboration, bonding, and strategic alignment.
• Work in a software-driven culture where even non-engineering teams deeply understand and engage with the technology.
• Contribute to a company culture rooted in agency, collaboration, and open-mindedness, where diverse perspectives drive innovation.
• Help build and maintain the authorization infrastructure that enables enterprises to manage access control at scale.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of networking, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Experience working with Git and GitHub and continuous integration/deployment systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Stock options at an early-stage startup.
• Comprehensive healthcare and other insurance benefits for US-based employees.
• Fully remote work with flexible scheduling across global timezones.
• Twice-yearly team offsites for collaboration and team bonding.

Skills & Technologies

Python

Java

Ruby

Node.js

GCP

Senior

Remote

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About Authzed Inc.

Authzed builds managed authorization infrastructure. Its flagship product, SpiceDB, is an open-source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database that developers embed to add fine-grained access control to applications. The company offers cloud-hosted and self-managed editions, plus tooling for schema design, testing, and observability. Customers span SaaS, fintech, and gaming verticals seeking centralized, auditable policy enforcement without re-architecting existing services.

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