# Software Engineer — Backend Platform at Better Auth

- Company: Better Auth
- What the company does: The Most Comprehensive Authentication Framework. Backed by Peak XV and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.better-auth.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-04-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/better-auth/am9icG9zdDphKiaf3tRisipSMNoR-3nA
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/better-auth-software-engineer-backend-platform/

## About the role

You’ll own the backend and platform development of Better Auth Infrastructure for both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployments. That means designing and shipping new platform capabilities, making the system more reliable and performant as it scales, and driving the deployment, observability, and compliance foundations required for enterprise customers.

## What they're looking for

- Experience level — 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong TypeScript and deep backend or infrastructure experience
- Backend depth — you’ve designed APIs, modeled data, and shipped systems that handle real production load, you know what breaks at scale and how to get ahead of it
- Edge/serverless experience — you’re comfortable designing and operating systems that run in edge or serverless environments and understand the runtime, observability, and architectural tradeoffs involved
- Reliability mindset — you think about failure modes, observability, operational burden, and recovery paths when you design systems, not after the fact
- Security fundamentals — familiarity with auth concepts like session management, token handling, access control, and common vulnerabilities, you write secure code by default, not as an afterthought
- SOC 2 familiarity — you understand what controls, audit logging, and data handling practices are required at the implementation level, not just the audit surface