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
BenefitsIn 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. For more background, read this blog post.
