Backend Engineer

About the Role

Join Clerk as a Backend Engineer to build and scale the core infrastructure that powers modern authentication and user management for thousands of applications globally. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-throughput, critical systems in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure backend services using Go and TypeScript.
• Own the development lifecycle for new features, from initial design through deployment and monitoring.
• Optimize database performance and data models, primarily using PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate closely with frontend and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless, reliable APIs.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge across the engineering team.

Requirements

• Proven professional experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language; Go (Golang) experience is highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker).

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with TypeScript in a backend context (Node.js).
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and asynchronous processing.
• Prior experience working on developer tools or authentication/identity platforms.