SYS:CAREERS // InferaDB
Build the authorization infrastructure the world needs
We're a small team solving a fundamental problem in software security. If you care about systems engineering, developer experience, and getting the hard things right — we'd like to hear from you.
Authorization is the most underengineered layer in modern software. It's the #1 risk in the OWASP API Security Top 10. Every company builds it from scratch, burns $900K/year maintaining it, and still gets it wrong. We're building a purpose-built database to make it a solved problem.
Our team helped define this market category — we were engineers behind OpenFGA at Auth0/Okta, now a CNCF incubating project. We know where the prior generation of solutions broke, and we're building what comes next: sub-microsecond performance, cryptographic audit trails, and consensus-based replication. All in Rust.
Small team, high leverage
We stay small deliberately. Every engineer has outsized impact on the product and the company. No layers of management between you and the work.
Correctness over speed
We're building security infrastructure. We don't ship fast and break things — we ship carefully and prove things. Property-based testing, formal verification where it matters, chaos engineering for distributed systems.
Open by default
Our core engine is open source. Our RFCs are public. Our roadmap is visible. We build in the open because authorization infrastructure should be transparent and auditable — and so should we.
Remote-first, async-first
Headquarters in Ireland, team distributed globally. We optimize for deep work, not meetings. Written communication over synchronous calls. Results over hours.
Own the full stack
Custom storage engine. Consensus protocol. Policy language. WASM sandbox. CLI, SDKs, Dashboard, Terraform provider. If it matters to the product, we build it ourselves — and you'll touch all of it.
Craftsmanship matters
We care about the quality of our code, our documentation, our APIs, and our design. Good developer experience isn't a feature — it's a principle. The details are the product.
Engineering
Developer Experience
Don't see a role that fits? We're always interested in hearing from exceptional people. Send us a note at careers@inferadb.com with what you're working on and why InferaDB interests you.
Authorization is a hard problem.
That's why it's
interesting.
If you want to work on distributed systems, cryptography, language design, and developer tooling — all in a single product — this is the place.
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