Sr. Software Engineer: Control Plane

AuthZed

2d • Remote

About The Position

At AuthZed, we’re redefining how modern applications think about access control.
AuthZed Cloud is an Authorization Infrastructure as a Service, designed to power real-time access control for production applications. Authorization decisions sit on the critical path of customer systems, which means correctness, performance, and availability are foundational requirements.
The control plane manages how customer authorization infrastructure is provisioned, secured, configured, and evolved over time.
This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, Kubernetes-native platforms, security-sensitive domains, and billing-critical workflows.
You’ll collaborate closely with frontend engineers, SRE, and Product to ensure AuthZed Cloud is reliable, secure, and transparent for customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and kubernetes
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud native technologies such as kubernetes
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including designing or operating controllers/operators.
• Experience implementing or integrating authentication systems (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC).
• Experience working with relational databases and transactional data models.
• Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: proven ability to build alignment across teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with or integrating AI-powered systems or tooling
• Familiarity with modern authorization systems and access control models.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AuthZed Cloud’s control plane.
• Build and operate Kubernetes-native systems, including custom operators and controllers, to manage customer environments and infrastructure lifecycle.
• Design durable, idempotent workflows for provisioning, configuration changes, scaling, and deletion.
• Implement and integrate authentication and identity flows (e.g., SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC) in a secure, multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Implement and evolve usage-based billing systems.
• Engineer distributed systems that behave correctly under partial failure, retries, concurrency, and long-running operations.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to design APIs and workflows that result in clear, reliable user experiences.
• Ensure services are observable and operable through structured logging, metrics, and alerts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues involving orchestration, authentication, or state management.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident resolution and post-incident improvements.
• Document APIs, workflows, system behavior, and operational guidelines.

Benefits

• 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!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level