Agent Identity & Access Engineer

Wwshemi; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Mentorship & events

Flexible time off

WFH budget

Job summary

Vercel is seeking an engineer for the Agent Auth and Identity team to build secure, scalable authentication and authorization systems for agents and users.

You will design and operate identity services, OAuth/OIDC flows, and auditable access controls across our platform and connected services. This role is hybrid and based in San Francisco, with in-office days Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend systems in production at scale.
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorization concepts, such as sessions, tokens, OAuth/OIDC flows, permission models, and secrets management.
• A security-minded approach to engineering: you think about threat models, least privilege, and failure modes as part of design, not as an afterthought.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the identity, authentication, and authorization systems that power Vercel and our Customers for both people and agents.
• Shape how agents prove who they are, act on behalf of users and teams, and receive scoped, time-bound, auditable access.
• Build secure, scalable APIs, services, and SDKs that make auth simple for developers and their agents to adopt.
• Work with modern and emerging standards (such as OAuth 2.x, OIDC, and agent-focused protocols) and help influence where they go next.
• Lead projects end-to-end: identify opportunities, set technical direction, and deliver improvements in security, reliability, and developer experience.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, taking responsibility for the reliability of critical systems.

Skills

Backend systems

OAuth/OIDC

Security-focused design

Job description

Vercel is seeking an engineer for the Agent Auth and Identity team to build secure, scalable authentication and authorization systems for agents and users.

You will design and operate identity services, OAuth/OIDC flows, and auditable access controls across our platform and connected services. This role is hybrid and based in San Francisco, with in-office days Monday, Tuesday and Friday.