AuthZed, founded in 2020, specializes in enterprise-scale authorization infrastructure designed to simplify permission management and secure access control. The company's flagship product, SpiceDB, is an open-source permissions database inspired by Google's Zanzibar system, which has garnered over 6,400 GitHub stars, indicating strong community engagement.
The platform is built to handle billions of objects and scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000 requests per second, reclaiming thousands of engineering hours for clients. AuthZed offers multiple deployment options, including managed cloud services (AuthZed Cloud and AuthZed Dedicated) and self-hosted enterprise solutions, catering to diverse organizational needs.
Operating fully remote across the US and Europe, AuthZed maintains a SOC2 certification and focuses entirely on authorization technology. The company's technical domains span authorization systems, database technology, and open-source software development.
