Clerk.com

Backend Engineer

Clerk.com

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

GoGoogle Cloud PlatformReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Shape the Clerk authentication experience: build, improve, and evolve Clerk’s managed authentication product
  • Design and implement new product features such as advanced OAuth, MCP, secure session management, audit logs and observability
  • Improve usability and workflows in partnership with design and product
  • Build for observability and transparency: create data pipelines and tools for understanding authentication flows and diagnosing issues
  • Collaborate with customers and teammates and practice strong communication in a fully remote environment
  • Execute iteratively and reduce time between feedback cycles
  • Thrive in a dynamic environment and work hands-on with customer problems
  • Be Customer 0 and build internal projects that may become customer-facing features
  • Embrace a culture of craft: write maintainable, performant, well-structured code

Requirements

  • Comfortable writing idiomatic Golang code
  • Ideally know your way around modern frontend stacks (Typescript/React)
  • Value building clean and performant APIs
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub patterns, and scaling challenges
  • High bar for code quality, system design, and performance
  • Passionate about building for other engineers and improving developer experience
  • Willing to make product tradeoffs to solve customer problems
  • Enjoy working on products you use yourself