Infrastructure Engineer, Clerk
Site Reliability Engineering
+ Stock options
Identity tool for React applications
Be an early applicant
Identity tool for React applications
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve user management so developers can stop re-inventing the wheel and focus on their core business.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in an Infrastructure role, with a minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience
- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Golang
- Strong knowledge of GCP and infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with Cloudflare infrastructure and edge computing technology like Cloudflare Workers
- Comfort in operating with autonomy. While you’ll be on a team, much of your work will be driven by your own intuition and require you to identify issues and then work with the right people in the organization to deliver solutions
- Deep knowledge of database management and optimization preferably using our DB stack (specifically Postgres, Redis, and Cloudflare)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies
- Expertise in monitoring and alerting solutions
- Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and compliance standards
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced startup environment
What the job involves
- Clerk is looking for product-minded Infrastructure Engineers / SREs to help us bring new functionality to the Clerk platform
- This role will have you work on nimble teams supporting our mission to help other builders launch and grow their businesses
- This role has a focus on Site Reliability and Database oversight
- As a member of our Infrastructure team you will play a pivotal role in overseeing and managing our organization's technology infrastructure, ensuring it is robust, efficient, and capable of supporting our product
- In your day-to-day you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our infrastructure to ensure it meets the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability
- Infrastructure Management: Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, efficient, and secure infrastructure on GCP
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools for provisioning, configuration, and deployment, ensuring repeatability and reliability
- Monitoring and Alerting: Establish and maintain robust ongoing monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and issues
- Incident Management: Participate in on-call rotation and work closely with the engineering team to resolve incidents, conduct post-incident analysis, and implement preventive measures
- Security: Collaborate with Security engineers to implement best practices for infrastructure security, compliance, and vulnerability management
- Documentation: Maintain detailed and up-to-date documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and improvement
- Identify and Diagnose: Support reliability by identifying emergent or future bottlenecks and work with our product teams to diagnose and implement scalability improvements
Our take
Authentication is only part of the story when it comes to user management. Developers using API tools also face the complex UI and management issues of additional features like user sign-up, sign-in, and session management, to name a few. Clerk was founded to make this simpler, reducing hours of work to minutes using pre-built React components.
Clerk stands out in a market dominated by the likes of Auth0 and OneSpan with its focus on React rather than API. This taps into a growing number of developers working with Jamstack rather than trying to wrestle customers away from market incumbents - a smart move which has seen its userbase swell by five times, growing to over a million developers.
This rapid growth has attracted investors, and Clerk closed a Series B round in 2024. This funding is being used to expand the company's services into authorisation - determining a user's permissions as opposed to simply identifying them. As account security and management will continue to be a major focus for developers going forward, Clerk is well positioned to grow into a major player in this space, especially as it continues to expand its product range.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $59m
Company benefits
- Stock option plan. We're all in this together!
- Gear of your choice for your home office
- Unlimited vacation policy - 25 days recommended per year plus national holidays in your country of residence. Take time when you need it
- Be part of a diverse, and exceptional team to build an impactful product for the modern web
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Colin Sidoti
(Lead Clerk & Co-Founder)Previously a web developer with We-Care.com, who then moved into an independent consulting role before co-founding and serving as CTO at Harbor Inc.
Braden Sidoti
(CTO & Co-Founder)Has held various engineering and developer roles, including at Fuzz Productions, hostess.fm, and Inspirato.
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