Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Security

AuthZed is the creator and maintainer of SpiceDB, an authorization infrastructure platform serving companies worldwide. This senior-level engineering role sits at the intersection of site reliability, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and security, requiring deep expertise in both production infrastructure operations and security practices to secure critical authorization services.

* Operate AuthZed's production infrastructure on Kubernetes and cloud platforms, with focus on availability, scalability, performance, and security * Advance infrastructure security across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and service-to-service communication * Secure the software supply chain from source code to production, including CI/CD, dependencies, container images, build artifacts, and deployment controls * Build automated security guardrails, policies, and secure defaults into the engineering platform to enable rapid, secure development * Develop and maintain vulnerability management, security telemetry, logging, alerting, and incident-response capabilities * Participate in the SRE on-call rotation, lead production incident response, and drive continuous operational improvement * Partner with engineering teams on architecture design, threat modeling, and security decisions throughout the development lifecycle

* Significant production systems operations experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, or Security Engineer * Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized production environments * Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and its security model * Strong understanding of IAM, workload identity, networking, TLS/PKI, encryption, and secrets management in cloud-native contexts * Experience designing, operating, and securing CI/CD and software delivery pipelines * Strong understanding of Linux and container security fundamentals * Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production incident response * Strong software engineering skills applied to operational and security automation challenges * Ability to operate independently, drive cross-functional projects, and provide technical leadership in small, highly technical teams