Software Engineer

Old Problem, New $25B+ Market

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.

Why Now?

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

Who You Are

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

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 $140,000-$220,000/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.