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title: 'Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security at WorkOS'
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# Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security at WorkOS

- **Company:** WorkOS
- **Location:** United States &, Canada
- **Compensation:** $175k–$275k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workos/ffba59a1-cead-4231-bd2d-a24649c6a3b9

## Job description

## About WorkOS 🚀

WorkOS builds modern developer tools and APIs that make it easy for companies to become Enterprise Ready. Our platform powers authentication, identity, authorization, and other critical infrastructure that developers need to securely scale their products to large organizations.

We recently raised a $100M Series C, valuing the company at $2B, led by Meritech and Sapphire with participation from Greenoaks, Craft, Abstract, and Audacious. WorkOS powers enterprise features for many of the fastest-growing AI companies, including OpenAI, Cursor, and Perplexity, Sierra, and Plaid.

As AI reshapes software, WorkOS is at the frontier of Human and Agent Authentication, Identity, and Access Control helping companies answer a new critical question: who are your agents, and what are they allowed to do? Our fast-growing customer base includes hundreds of modern software companies building the next generation of enterprise-ready products.

## About the Security Platform team

The Infrastructure Security team provides and supports the primitives that enable engineering to securely build applications and meet compliance obligations, while abstracting away the underlying complexity for the best possible developer experience. Our work centers on workload identity and authorization: how internal applications authenticate to each other and to the services they depend on, and how that access is granted and enforced. We're replacing static secrets with short-lived identity credentials, bringing identity-based authentication to the services engineers use every day, and unifying how authorization is managed across the company. We're a platform engineering team with a security mission. We measure success by the security outcomes we enable and by how much engineers enjoy building on what we ship — the secure path should be the easiest path.

Who we're looking for

- A platform builder. You love building infrastructure that other engineers rely on every day, and you sweat the developer experience details that make adoption effortless.
- Fluent in service-to-service auth. You know authentication and authorization deeply: JWTs, X.509 certificates, and when to reach for each.
- A systems thinker. You reason carefully about bootstrapping, circular dependencies, availability, and failure modes, especially for infrastructure that everything else depends on.
- A pragmatic migrator. You know that shipping the primitive is half the job. You can drive adoption across many teams, meet them where they are, and retire the legacy path.
- A strong partner to engineering. You build trust with engineers by understanding their priorities and making security frictionless.
- Excited about AI. You're embracing AI and automation to scale platform work and reduce toil.
- Curious and humble. You ask the basic questions, enjoy untangling complex systems, and bring others along with you.

## Responsibilities

- Build workload identity infrastructure. Make short-lived identity credentials a default part of every application's runtime environment, in partnership with application platform owners.
- Bring identity-based authentication to internal services. Work with the owners of major internal dependencies to support identity certificates, make them the golden path for newly onboarding applications, and drive migration of existing ones.
- Eliminate static secrets. Replace all static passwords and service tokens with short-lived identity credentials, and build identity-authenticated egress proxies and API abstractions that inject and automatically rotate managed secrets for the external dependencies that still require them.
- Unify authorization. Build a single interface and framework through which authorization policies are centrally managed and enforced.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on security-related platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Strong working knowledge of secrets management, fine-grained authorization, and workload identity systems.
- Familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem and authentication/authorization technologies such as JWTs, X.509 certificates, PKI, cert-manager, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and OPA.
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure that other teams depend on, with attention to availability and failure modes.
- Proven ability to drive cross-team adoption of platform capabilities or lead large-scale migrations.

## Benefits and Perks (US Only) 💖

At WorkOS, we offer resources that emphasize personal and familial well-being. We offer healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision. We offer parental leave, paid-time off and fully remote working arrangements.

- 401k matching
- Competitive Equity
- Healthcare, dental and vision coverage
- FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life
- Carrot fertility benefits
- 20 days paid vacation + 10 holidays + unlimited sick leave
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Fitness: Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active
- Wellness: Monthly stipend for a massage, meditations class, therapy, or activities that enhance your well-being
- Commuter benefits for hybrid employees in SF/NYC
- Unlimited token usage!

Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

WorkOS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

## About WorkOS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WorkOS is a modern API platform that enables developers to quickly add complex enterprise features (SSO, Directory Sync, User Management) to any SaaS application, accelerating the journey to becoming enterprise-ready.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; total funding $210M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Michael Grinich

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise SaaS Infrastructure / Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: B2B SaaS companies, from startups to scale-ups, needing to unlock enterprise deals by supporting IT admin requirements (SAML, SCIM, etc.)
- **Mission / purpose**: "Accelerate SaaS companies in their journey to become Enterprise Ready" [workos.com/about](https://workos.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **WorkOS Platform**: A unified API that bundles multiple enterprise features into a single integration. Key capabilities include:
  - **Enterprise SSO (Single Sign-On)**: Support for any SAML or OIDC identity provider (Okta, Entra ID, ADFS, etc.) with a single integration [workos.com](https://workos.com/).
  - **Directory Sync (SCIM)**: Sync user lifecycle events from enterprise directories (Okta, Azure AD, BambooHR, Rippling) via SCIM and HRIS integrations.
  - **User Management**: Complete auth system including Magic Auth (passwordless email codes), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), social logins, and organization/role management.
  - **Admin Portal**: A hosted, customizable interface for IT admins to self-configure SSO and directory sync, reducing support burden.
  - **AuthKit**: Flexible, branded authentication UI powered by WorkOS and Radix.
  - **Feature Flags** (via recent product expansion): A new product area, as seen in job postings for "Product Engineer - Feature Flags" [workos.com/careers](https://workos.com/careers).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $210M (across 6 rounds) as of the $100M Series C in March 2026 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Greenoaks (led Series B), Meritech Capital Partners and Sapphire Ventures (co-led Series C)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 46.6% YoY to ~102 employees (July 2025 vs July 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc)
  - Operations in 9 countries (US, Canada, UK, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, etc.)
  - Acquired Modulz (design system) in June 2022
  - Active job postings up 200% year-over-year (33 open positions) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 93.6% year-over-year (to ~15,400)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified API approach**: One integration for SSO, SCIM, user management, and admin onboarding, saving months of development vs. building each feature separately.
- **Developer-first design**: Modern RESTful APIs, JSON responses, SDKs for Node.js, Ruby, Python, .NET, Go, etc., and a focus on minimal friction for engineers.
- **Broad provider coverage**: Works with 20+ enterprise identity providers and directories out of the box.
- **Radix design system**: Open-source component library from the Modulz acquisition, used to build AuthKit and Admin Portal with high polish.
- **Proven at scale**: Used by SaaS companies to unlock multi-million dollar deals (e.g., Vercel, Loom, etc. – though not explicitly cited in search results, typical customer base).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding product surface**: Adding new modules like Feature Flags, Audit Logs, and RBAC to become the single "enterprise infrastructure" layer for SaaS.
- **Going multi-product**: Enabling the same API to support multiple enterprise features, increasing wallet share per customer.
- **Hiring for AI-native sales and engineering**: Job postings for "Applied AI Engineer" and "GTM - AI Native Sales" signal a push into AI-driven product capabilities and go-to-market.
- **Remote-first scaling**: Building a distributed team (102 people across 9 countries) while maintaining a strong engineering culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Team of 100+ builders distributed across the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, with a strong emphasis on developer joy and autonomy [workos.com/about](https://workos.com/about).
- **Generous benefits** (US employees; comparable benefits outside US):
  - Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  - 401(k) with 3% match
  - 20 days paid vacation per year
  - 12 weeks parental leave
  - Monthly fitness and wellness stipends
  - Home office setup stipend [workos.com/careers](https://workos.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: High ratio of technical staff (59 out of 102 in technical roles), strong alumni from Stripe, GitHub, Plaid, Netlify, and others [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc).
- **Career growth**: Rapidly growing company (46.6% headcount growth YoY) with many open roles in engineering, product, and GTM, offering significant ownership and impact.
- **Employer rating**: 4.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (31 reviews), with strong scores for work-life balance (4.2) and culture (4.0) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc).

## Sources
1. [workos.com](https://workos.com/) - Product overview and features
2. [workos.com/about](https://workos.com/about) - Company mission and team description
3. [workos.com/careers](https://workos.com/careers) - Benefits and open positions
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/workos-inc) - Company details, headcount, funding, and employee data
5. [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/companies/workos) - Cultural fit and engineering focus

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