Software Engineer

Companies like AWS Stripe and Twilio have shown that if a technology isn't core to your value proposition you should offload it. Still every engineering team builds and rebuilds one piece: authorization how you control who has access to what in your app. We intend to change that.

We see a world where developers never roll their own authorization again and instead say "Just use Oso" – the same way you might say "Oh you should just use Postgres for that." In doing so we're creating the $25B+ authorization market.

We have the lead – in traction capital and team.

• Traction: Oso is used by thousands of companies from startups to the Fortune 500 like Wayfair ProductBoard Vanta Brex Verizon ZoomInfo and Duolingo.

• Capital: We're backed by the world’s best investors including Sequoia Felicis and a standout group of infrastructure founders and operators: Olivier Pomel (Founder Datadog) Dev Ittycheria (CEO MongoDB) Armon Dadgar (Founder HashiCorp) Edith Harbaugh (Founder LaunchDarkly) Guy Podjarny (Founder Snyk) Paul Copplestone (Founder Supabase) Christina Cacioppo (Founder Vanta) and Calvin French-Owen (Founder Segment).

• Team: We've spent 5+ years going deep on the domain. We've met with thousands of engineering teams and know more about this problem than anyone. And we have two of the best developer go-to-market leaders on earth who have done it before at MongoDB and Snyk.

We're at an inflection point. What it takes to get from where we are today to a world where developers say “Just use Oso” is going to be different. And we see that.

The opportunity is for you to join at this inflection point in a role that’s bigger and different than usual.

• Experiment design and build UIs flows features and layers of abstraction that decrease the amount of work our users have to do. Lots of devex

• Expand use case coverage of our core authorization service

• Build and operate infrastructure for our highly available and low latency cloud service

Plus help build a company and community from the ground up by wearing other hats including:

• Writing documentation and blog posts to excite and support new users

• Engaging with users through support channels (e.g. Slack) to help them with their problems

Here are examples of things we've worked on:

• Built a visual policy builder for our declarative policy language Polar

• Built an interactive debugger called Explain to help users understand why authorization requests succeed or fail

• Implemented incremental forward chaining to cache authorization responses for deeply nested recursive queries

• You're ambitious. You want to win big. You can't stand to be around anything but execution at the highest level. You have an inner motor to move fast.

• You're an owner. You are accountable to results over the process. You see yourself not just as an engineer but also as an owner of the company.

• You're resilient. Building a startup is not for the faint of heart. You see the challenges as not just normal but actually desirable.

• You want to grow and help others grow. You self-reflect often. You give feedback and you seek it out.

• You prioritize the customer above all else. You want to understand our users' world and prioritize solving their authorization problems above everything else.

• You have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer

• You have worked at a startup or in a similar environment

• You have worked on developer experience and/or user experience

• You can program at different levels of the stack – i.e. frontend and backend web app to lower level systems

In addition to cash compensation Oso offers a Total Rewards package that includes equity grants health benefits and more:

• Competitive health dental and vision coverage

• Mental healthcare to all employees and anyone in their family through Spring Health

• Unlimited access to financial advisors through Northstar

• Equity Package

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible work options

• One Medical Membership

• Quarterly hackathons... and prizes!

• Free team lunches every month

The starting salary for this role is between $140000-$220000/year plus equity. Your exact offer will vary based on a number of factors including experience level skillset market location and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.

A note on titles: We have no titles on our engineering team. Everyone is an Engineer. Compensation is commensurate with contribution. For more background read this blog post.

Oso is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race color national origin religion sex age disability sexual orientation gender identity veteran or disability status.

What We Do

Authorization controls who has access to what in an app. It’s a problem as old as computers and it turns out it’s a hard problem. At Oso we help our customers build features to meet enterprise requirements like fine-grained access controls or custom roles and permissions. We also provide the tools needed to build the next generation of secure permissions aware AI applications.

Why Work With Us

We are hiring folks who want to change how developers build software. We are doing the hardest but also the best work of our lives. The team members who join now will not only have a disproportionately large impact on the product but also on the culture and future of the company.

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