The autonomous stack for every app and agent. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Khosla.
About the role
Agents are becoming first-class users of the internet. They sign in, call APIs, deploy code, and act on behalf of people and teams. That raises questions the web was never designed to answer: Who is this agent? Who does it work for? What is it allowed to do, for how long, and how do we know? Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience.
Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide.
Agents are becoming first-class users of the internet. They sign in, call APIs, deploy code, and act on behalf of people and teams. That raises questions the web was never designed to answer: Who is this agent? Who does it work for? What is it allowed to do, for how long, and how do we know?
As an engineer on the Agent Auth and Identity team, you'll help answer those questions. You'll build the systems that let agents and people authenticate, delegate access, and act safely across Vercel and the services our customers connect to. This is foundational work: identity and authorization sit underneath everything we ship, and getting them right for agents will shape how modern software gets built.
The scope is intentionally broad. You might spend one quarter designing how...
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