Software Engineer, Accounts

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (US)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Vercel’s Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Customers like Under Armour, eBay, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier use Vercel to build dynamic user experiences on the web. At Vercel, our mission is to enable the world to ship the best products and that goes hand in hand with creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life.

About the Role

We are seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Account Lifecycle and Access Management (IAM). In this role, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance systems. Leveraging JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL cloud-native databases, and AWS, you will develop innovative solutions for user, group, and membership management while ensuring the highest levels of security and reliability. This role is ideal for a problem-solver who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and is excited by the opportunity to tackle complex challenges, scale distributed systems, and shape the future of IAM solutions on a robust AWS infrastructure. This role is remote based out of the US, with preference for candidates in New York City or San Francisco.

What You Will Do

• 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.
• Maintain and operate services at high scale, participating in scheduled on-call rotations to ensure reliability.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-grade IAM solutions, focusing on user, group, and membership management.
• 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.
• Design and implement robust access control models using OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML 2.0, and other protocols.
• Build and maintain high-quality enterprise software using TypeScript, REST APIs, and JSON.

About You

• Experience: 3+ years of experience with IAM architectures and implementing cloud computing solutions (AWS preferred).
• Technical Skills:
  • 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.
  • Enthusiasm to work with and learn more about Identity Protocols like OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML.
• Database: Experience with SQL.
• SCIM: Hands-on experience implementing identity lifecycle management solutions using SCIM.