Senior Growth Engineer, Clerk

• Five+ years hands-on software engineering
• 1–2+ years running growth experiments in PLG/SaaS (dev tools experience is ideal)
• Full-stack fluency with professional experience in JavaScript/TypeScript (Next.js) and Go, plus strong SQL
• Confident with your data. You can define events, query BigQuery, and analyze in PostHog and Hex (or something similar)
• You ship unblocked, communicate clearly, and close the loop
• You’re driven to understand the “why” behind everything and can focus that intense curiosity into action
• You’re user-focused and all about open collaboration. You should be comfortable talking to developers and sharing dashboards, PRs, and read-outs
• Excited to embrace and leverage LLM-based tools to drive engineering work
• You should be based in North America or Western Europe time zones. Core hours are your regular workday in your timezone

Desirable

• As a Growth Engineer, you’ll help developers succeed faster with Clerk by shipping measurable improvements across our growth surfaces—SDK, docs/quickstart, dashboard onboarding, backend, and email
• You’ll move quickly and learn in public with a team that cares about craft and outcomes
• Ship experiments across any surface (Clerk SDKs, docs/quickstart, dashboard, backend, email/CRM)
• Collaborate across engineering, design, product, and marketing to improve developer’s experiences using Clerk
• Operate across the full stack: Next.js + JavaScript/TypeScript (including our JS SDK), Go services backed by Postgres; BigQuery and PostHog for analysis and flags
• Establish clear hypothesis and success metrics for every experiment; instrument, launch behind flags, monitor, and share read-outs