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authzed

Cloud Infrastructure for Authorization

Y CombinatorWinter 2021ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSSecurityOpen Source

What they do

Problem

Application teams struggle to implement authorization that is performant, scalable, and maintainable as systems grow.

Solution

They provide cloud infrastructure and tooling to build and operate scalable, high-performance authorization for applications.

Who it's for

Software developers and engineering teams at companies building applications that need robust authorization.

Founders

Jake Moshenko
Founder

Jake Moshenko is an engineering leader that has been building infrastructure tools and services for over 15 years for large companies and startups alike. Having previously struggled to keep up with customer permissions demands on products such as CoreOS’s Quay and Tectonic, he was searching for a better way to do application permissions.

Jimmy Zelinskie
Founder

Jimmy Zelinskie is a software engineer and product leader with the goal of empowering the world through the democratization of software via open source development. He's currently the CPO and cofounder of authzed where he's focused on bringing hyperscaler best-practices in authorization software to the industry at large.

Joseph Schorr
Founder

Open roles 3

Sr. Software Engineer - Distributed Databases
US / CA / Remote (US; CA) · Full-time · $155K - $210K
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Sr. Software Engineer: Control Plane
US / CA / Remote (US; CA) · Full-time · $150K - $195K
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Sr. Developer Advocate (US-Based)
US / Remote (US) · Full-time · $140K - $170K
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