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September 13

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Clerk.dev

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SaaS • Security • Enterprise

Clerk. com is a comprehensive user management platform offering a suite of embeddable UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards for user authentication and management. The platform provides features such as multifactor authentication, fraud prevention, SOC 2 type 2 certification, session management, social sign-on, bot detection, and more. Clerk integrates seamlessly with popular frameworks and tools, ensuring a smooth developer experience. It caters to multi-tenant SaaS applications with its suite of features designed for onboarding and management of users and organizations. Clerk is trusted by both startups and large enterprises, offering robust solutions for security and user authentication.

2 - 10 employees

☁️ SaaS

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary • Equity Ownership • Work Gear - Set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice • Flexible Vacation Policy – recommend 25 days per year; vacation policy is unlimited; observes national holidays specific to your country of residence • Diverse and Inclusive Team