Clerk.com · 4 months ago
Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid LevelClerk is on a mission to solve user management and is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build their core authentication product. The role involves working across the stack to develop new features, improve usability, and collaborate with customers to enhance the developer experience.
Information TechnologyNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Shape the Clerk authentication experience – Build, improve, and evolve Clerk’s beloved managed authentication product. Your work will directly influence how thousands of teams interact with Clerk daily
Design and implement new product features – From features like advanced OAuth and MCP to secure session management to audit logs and observability, you’ll build new functionality that makes it easier for users to authenticate and for developers to manage their users at scale
Improve usability and workflows – Partner with design and product to streamline the utility, clarity, and efficiency of the auth product so developers can stop worrying about auth entirely, and focus on building their own products
Build for observability and transparency – Create data pipelines and tools that help developers understand authentication flows, diagnose issues, and gain confidence in the systems they’ve built with Clerk
Collaborate with customers and teammates – Be part of a world-class product delivery team that cares deeply about customer needs and the value of constant iteration. We’re fully remote, which means you’ll need to practice good communication habits to keep things moving
Execute – Clerk values engineers who execute. That means approaching work iteratively and reducing the time between feedback cycles
Thrive in a dynamic environment – Clerk is not well suited for engineers who expect every task to be a series of predefined steps. We believe the best approach is to work through our customer’s problems in the trenches and not merely think through them from the sidelines
Be Customer 0 – Clerk is built on top of Clerk. That means the work you do to solve our internal projects likely will also become functionality that we release to customers as well. We are looking for engineers who care deeply about product quality and want to back that up with their work
Embrace a culture of craft by focusing on engineering quality. We want our product to be best-in-class, and so we need our team to write maintainable, performant, and well-structured code
Qualification
Required
Comfortable writing idiomatic Golang code
Ideally know your way around modern frontend stacks (even if not a frontend expert)
Familiar with event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub patterns, and scaling challenges
Set a high bar for code quality, system design, and performance
Passionate about building for other engineers and obsess over making their experience better
Believe in solving real customer problems, even if it means making tradeoffs behind the scenes
Understand that the purity of your systems are second to the outcomes they enable for customers
Love working on products you use yourself
Preferred
Experience with Typescript
Experience with GCP and Cloudflare
Experience with building clean and performant APIs
Benefits
Competitive Salary – We want you to know that we value the skills and experience you bring to the table. We go out of our way to make sure that you feel fairly compensated.
Equity Ownership – At Clerk, we believe in shared success. That's why we offer a stock option plan so that everyone can benefit from the growth and prosperity of the company.
Work Gear - Set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice. At Clerk, we want to ensure that you have everything you need to perform at your best.
Flexible Vacation Policy – We believe in work-life balance and trust you to take the time you need. Although we recommend 25 days per year, our vacation policy is unlimited. This is in addition to observing national holidays specific to your country of residence.
Diverse and Inclusive Team – Join our exceptional, diverse, and globally distributed team at Clerk. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best in building impactful products and tools for the modern web.
Company
Clerk.com
Clerk is a full stack auth and user management solution — so you can launch faster, scale easier, and stay focused on building your business.
Founded in 2020
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$134.5MKey Investors
CRVMadronaAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-15Series C· $50M
2024-01-18Series B· $30M
2023-06-30Series B· $29M
Leadership Team
Braden Sidoti
CTO, Co-founder
Recent News
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