Remote Backend Engineer - Team Platform

Description:

• The Backend Engineer - Team Platform position at Clerk involves building APIs and services to handle the company's increasing scale and ambitions.
• The role also includes collaborating with SRE/Infrastructure teammates to ensure stability and reliability of the platform.
• Clerk is dedicated to solving user management and provides developers with full-stack React components and hooks.
• The Platform team at Clerk is responsible for the core foundations of the product and supports other teams in building upon these services.
• The role requires scaling the architecture intelligently, progressing tooling, and collaborating with teammates to release new features.
• The position also involves focusing on engineering quality and maintaining best-in-class product standards.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in writing idiomatic Golang code and familiarity with Typescript, as the architecture is built on GCP and Cloudflare.
• Passion for performance and infrastructure challenges like Distributed Systems, with a preference for practical solutions.
• Deep familiarity with systems architectural patterns like Event-driven / Pub/Sub.
• Ability to establish high-quality patterns for developers to follow and maintain standards as the product matures.
• Comfortable building for other engineers and understanding the tradeoffs between system purity and customer outcomes.
• Excitement about dogfooding Clerk's product surface.

Benefits:

• 💰 Competitive Salary – Fair compensation for the skills and experience brought to the role.
• 📈 Equity Ownership – Stock option plan for shared success and benefit from the company's growth.
• ⚕️ Health Coverage – Top-tier health insurance for well-being and health needs.
• 🎧 Work Gear - Choose gear for an ideal home office setup to perform at the best.
• 🏖️ Flexible Vacation Policy – Unlimited vacation policy with recommended 25 days per year, in addition to national holidays.
• 🌍 Diverse and Inclusive Team – Join a diverse, globally distributed team committed to building impactful products for the modern web.