13 hours ago
Base Salary
$196k - $294k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate identity, authentication, and authorization systems for people and autonomous agents.
- Define how agents authenticate, act on behalf of users and teams, and receive scoped, time-bound, auditable access.
- Build secure, scalable APIs, services, and SDKs for developer and agent adoption.
- Work with OAuth 2.x, OIDC, and emerging agent-focused protocols.
- Lead projects from opportunity identification and technical direction through delivery and long-term operation.
- Partner with product, security, and platform teams to improve identity across Vercel products.
- Participate in on-call rotation and own the reliability of critical systems.
- Contribute to open source and the broader conversation about agent identity and trust.
- Write clean, efficient, tested, and documented code.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript, or a comparable backend language with willingness to work primarily in TypeScript.
- Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts including sessions, tokens, OAuth/OIDC flows, permission models, and secrets management.
- Security-minded engineering approach covering threat models, least privilege, and failure modes.
- Track record of end-to-end ownership from design and implementation through long-term operation.
- Ability to reason about architectural tradeoffs and balance long-term vision with pragmatic delivery.
- Strong cross-team collaboration and alignment-building skills.
- Curiosity and comfort working in a fast-moving domain with evolving solutions.
- Preferred experience with identity providers, auth platforms, access-control systems, delegated authorization, workload identity, service-to-service authentication, or machine credentials.
- Preferred experience with LLM-powered agents, tool calling, MCP, AWS, Terraform, React, Next.js, open-source projects, or standards bodies.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity.
- Inclusive healthcare package.
- Mentorship and attendance at events supporting professional growth and networking.
- Flexible time off.
- Company-provided equipment and a work-from-home budget.
- Base pay range of $196,000–$294,000, with potential benefits, equity-based compensation, and bonus or variable pay eligibility.
Tech Stack
About Vercel
Vercel builds a frontend cloud platform for developing, previewing, and deploying web applications, with strong support for React and Next.js. It sells usage-based and enterprise plans to developers and companies, and it stewards the open-source Next.js framework alongside tools like the AI SDK. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company focuses on speeding up modern web development and delivery.