Software Engineer, Backend

Vercel is an agentic infrastructure company building platforms and products that help people and agents ship software. The Backend-leaning Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance systems for user, group, and membership management, with a focus on security and reliability. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, identity lifecycle management, infrastructure as code, and enterprise software development.

Responsibilities:

• Enable us to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable services that exceed industry standards and customer expectations
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale projects with cross-team dependencies
• Collaborate with peer teams to deliver solutions that meet industry standards and customer expectations
• Maintain and operate services at high scale, participating in scheduled on-call rotations to ensure reliability
• Implement identity synchronization and lifecycle management solutions using SCIM and other relevant standards
• Work with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Kubernetes, etc.) to deliver scalable, high-availability applications
• Build and maintain high-quality enterprise software using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON

Requirements:

• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and Node.js
• Strong knowledge of security architecture, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, OAuth2, OpenID Connect and web protocols like XML, SOAP, JSON, and REST
• Familiarity with access control models such as RBAC, ABAC and ReBAC
• Experience with SQL
• Practical experience developing and improving applications written in Node.js
• Exhibit excellent problem-solving abilities and effective communication skills, especially when collaborating with diverse teams