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# Solutions Engineer - U.S. and Canada at AuthZed

- **Company:** AuthZed
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $130k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/authzed/37f620ee-db46-40b8-97a9-c7c5b0c072fe

## Job description

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! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day.

Company Values:

- Agency: Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made.
- Collaboration: Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you cannot arrive at the best possible solution.
- Open-mindedness: Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate.

About the Role: As a Solutions Engineer, you will help qualify and close opportunities with customers and provide technical expertise through supporting technical evaluations, sales presentations, and product demonstrations.

What you’ll own:

- The technical win in deals by demonstrating that AuthZed meets the prospect's requirements
- Daily collaboration with Account Executives in a pre-sales role to understand and document customer technical requirements, performance Service Level Objectives (SLOs), consistency requirements, and software architecture
- Building live[permissions schema design](https://authzed.com/docs/spicedb/concepts/schema) sessions, tailored solutions leveraging our products, and designing Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to validate solutions with prospects
- Leading virtual and in-person demos and deep-dive technical sessions
- Identifying product gaps and communicating these to our product team to help shape the future of our offerings
- Creation, improvement, and maintenance of dynamic customer demos, troubleshooting technical issues to ensure customer success

What you bring:

- Experience: Minimum 3 years in a solutions engineering role or similar technical position, preferably in a customer-facing capacity
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a relevant field. Directly related work experience will also be considered in lieu of formal education
- Technical Proficiency:
- Working proficiency in a modern backend language (Go, Python, Java, or Node preferred)
- Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., Postgres)
- Proficient in designing and deploying solutions in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and managing Kubernetes clusters
- Experience integrating against APIs, including handling streams and pagination
- Communication and Analytical Skills: Strong abilities to diagnose and solve complex technical issues, recommend solutions based on customer requirements, and effectively communicate both technical and business requirements to diverse audiences, including internal engineering and product teams
- Client Interaction: Proven track record of conducting training sessions, demos, and presentations to stakeholders of various technical levels
- Flexibility and Adaptability: Comfortable with ambiguous and changing requirements, with a rapid ability to learn new technical concepts

Extra shine:

- Open Source Involvement: Experience working with and contributing to open-source software projects
- Advanced Architecture and Software Knowledge:
- Experience building and maintaining authorization for an app that you or you and your team built
- Experience integrating against gRPC APIs
- Experience with graph databases
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including committing data to multiple databases using patterns like change data capture (CDC), message queues, two-phase commit protocol (2PC), and workflow engines like Temporal
- Hands-on experience building agents or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
- CRM: Experience with CRM systems

Travel Expectations:

- Typically 3 to 4 days per month, mostly domestic travel to customer sites or internal team offsites

Life at AuthZed:

- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in a rapidly growing sector
- A supported environment where your ideas lead to real impact
- Competitive salary based on experience and location
- Stock options at an early-stage startup
- Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
- Fully remote
- Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

## About AuthZed

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AuthZed provides authorization infrastructure for modern applications and develops SpiceDB, the open-source permissions database inspired by Google's Zanzibar.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jake Moshenko (CEO), Jimmy Zelinskie (CPO), Joseph Schorr

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Authorization infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development
- **Target Customers**: B2B, focusing on engineering and product teams at technology companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises
- **Mission**: To help every organization build fast and secure authorization that scales, by providing battle-tested, open-source infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **SpiceDB (Open Source)**: The core product — a permissions database inspired by Google's Zanzibar. It allows developers to build fine-grained, relationship-based access control (ReBAC) systems that can scale to billions of objects.
- **AuthZed Cloud**: A managed, self-service platform for deploying and running SpiceDB without operational overhead.
- **AuthZed Dedicated**: Single-tenant, dedicated SpiceDB deployments for enterprises requiring maximum isolation and compliance.
- **SpiceDB Enterprise**: The production-ready, licensed version of SpiceDB for self-hosted deployments with enterprise support.
- **AI Authorization**: Specialized infrastructure enabling AI systems (e.g., RAG applications) to securely access data while respecting user permissions.
- **SpiceDB Operator**: An open-source Kubernetes Operator for deploying and managing SpiceDB clusters.
- **AuthZed MCP Server & Claude Code Plugin**: Developer tools for integrating SpiceDB into AI coding workflows and local development environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: **$16.0 million**
    - Seed Round (Apr 2021): $3.9M led by Work-Bench
    - Series A (Jun 2024): $12M led by General Catalyst
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$1.2 million** (per LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors**: General Catalyst, Work-Bench, Y Combinator (W21 batch), Amplify
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount grew **24.1% YoY** to **34 employees** (as of mid-2025).
    - Operates across 8 countries (US, Spain, Kosovo, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Switzerland).
    - SpiceDB has significant community traction on GitHub and is used by notable companies like Netflix and Turo.
    - Actively hiring with 6 open positions, including senior engineering and developer advocacy roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Leadership**: AuthZed creates and leads SpiceDB, the most mature open-source implementation of Google's Zanzibar, giving them a strong community and credibility.
- **Proven Technology**: Built by a team with deep experience from Google, Red Hat, and CoreOS, directly leveraging their knowledge of building hyperscaler infrastructure.
- **Developer-First Approach**: Products are designed for developers, with a strong focus on APIs, SDKs, and tools like the MCP server and Claude Code plugin.
- **Scaling from Day One**: The SpiceDB architecture is designed to handle billions of relationships and millions of requests per second, removing a major scaling bottleneck for customers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding the AI Authorization Market**: A major current focus is on enabling fine-grained authorization for AI applications, particularly Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
- **Growing the Platform**: Moving beyond the open-source core to build a comprehensive cloud platform (AuthZed Cloud/Dedicated) that makes it easy for enterprises to adopt and manage SpiceDB.
- **Community and Ecosystem Growth**: Investing in developer relations, community tools (MCP Servers, Claude Code Plugin), and documentation to drive adoption and build a strong ecosystem around SpiceDB.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-Edge Technology**: Work on a complex, high-impact infrastructure problem — building the "source of truth" for permissions that scales to Google-like levels.
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company is remote-first with a distributed team across the US and Europe, offering significant flexibility.
- **Well-Funded & Growing**: As a Series A company with $16M in funding and strong investor backing, it offers the stability and resources of a growing startup.
- **Strong Engineering DNA**: The team is heavily technical (36% of employees), with a culture that values open-source contributions and solving hard distributed systems problems.
- **Competitive Compensation**: Salaries for senior engineering roles range from **$140K to $210K**, demonstrating a commitment to attracting top talent.
- **Impact**: As a relatively small team (34 people), new hires can have an outsized impact on the product, technology, and company direction.

## Sources
1. [AuthZed Official Website](https://authzed.com/)
2. [AuthZed Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/authzed)
3. [AuthZed on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/authzed)
4. [AuthZed on Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/authzed)
5. [AuthZed on CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/authzed)
6. [SiliconANGLE: AuthZed raises $12M](https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/27/permissions-management-startup-authzed-raises-12m-accelerate-strategic-expansion/)

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