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# Sr. Developer Advocate (US-Based) at AuthZed

- **Company:** AuthZed
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $140k–$170k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/authzed/168d6ddd-5d71-41bd-a7f0-996ff191bce3

## 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 (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.

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 Sr. Developer Advocate you'll collaborate closely with our Lead Developer Advocate to shape advocacy strategy, quarterly priorities, and long-term vision, with a strong focus on the role of authorization in agentic AI. You'll define and track success metrics for advocacy initiatives, iterating based on developer engagement and product outcomes. You'll act as a technical authority for our products and technologies, producing opinionated technical content (e.g. videos, tutorials, sample apps, reference architectures, and integrations). You'll serve as a conduit of feedback to the Product and Engineering teams by turning external observations into actionable recommendations. You'll engage with developers in physical communities (e.g. KubeCon) and on social media (Reddit, LinkedIn, HackerNews, DevTo).

What you’ll own:

- The AI portions of our developer advocacy execution, translating high-level strategy into impactful, measurable programs
- Our North American presence at industry conferences and meetups
- Gathering product feedback from the open source community

What you bring (in priority order):

- 3+ years in a developer relations, developer experience, or community role
- 2+ years experience in a programming role
- 1+ years experience working on development of agents, agent harnesses, evals, agentic memory, agentic identity, AI data governance, or RAG pipelines
- Experience working with developers and success building community following on social media
- A deep understanding of working with commercial open source projects
- Have helped teach developers by producing live streams, creating videos, and by speaking at meetups/conferences
- Comfort wearing many hats, often context switching between them in the same workday
- Ability to work effectively in a remote setting often during travel

Extra shine:

- Familiarity with database technologies and relationships to their communities
- Expertise in AI technologies and relationships to their communities

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.
- Stock options at an early-stage startup.
- Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance.
- A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
- 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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