[Hiring] Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security @WorkOS

Role Description

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.

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?

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

• Healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision.
• Parental leave, paid-time off and fully remote working arrangements.
• 401k matching.
• Competitive Equity.
• FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life.
• Carrot fertility benefits.
• 20 days paid vacation + 10 holidays + unlimited sick leave.
• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave.
• Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active.
• 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!

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.