Solutions Engineer - U.S. Based

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.

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Fully remote

• Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!