Careers at Workos

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 🚀 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 team The Security team at WorkOS is responsible for keeping the data and identities of hundreds of millions of users secure. Security is fundamental to our products, and customer trust is the foundation of our success. We are a highly collaborative group with a strong engineering mindset. Our security program is shaped by hands-on experience attacking and defending systems, and applying lessons from across the industry. We embrace the latest advancements in practices and tooling that make modern security teams effective. We are comfortable in code and collaborate often with engineering to create products that are secure by default. Who we’re looking for Risk-focused and pragmatic. You excel at identifying and reasoning about security risk in real-world contexts. You prioritize ruthlessly, always asking: what's the most effective way to reduce risk right now and in the long term? A builder who can break things. You're comfortable reading and writing code, and you have a passion for deeply understanding the products you secure. You think like an attacker to find subtle, high impact vulnerabilities and like a defender to design pragmatic, effective mitigations. A strong partner to engineering. You build trust with engineers by understanding their priorities, making security frictionless, and finding ways to make the secure path, the easiest path. Excited about AI. You're embracing AI and automation to scale security and reduce toil. Curious and humble. You ask the basic questions, enjoy untangling complex systems, and bring others along with you. Responsibilities Lead secure design efforts. Partner with engineering teams on secure design and code reviews. Identify and prioritize risks early in the product lifecycle. Build secure by default systems. Develop paved paths that systemically reduce risk and make secure development the easiest path for engineers. Perform offensive security testing. Conduct penetration tests and code audits on new and existing products from an adversarial lens. Improve our security tooling. Integrate and improve our static analysis, supply chain security, and vulnerability management capabilities across engineering pipelines. Operate our responsible disclosure program. Run and improve our program by furthering automation, validating submissions, and coordinating remediation. Improve our products. Write and ship code to remediate vulnerabilities in production systems and improve the security posture of WorkOS products. Work directly with customers. Help build our customers' trust by directly engaging with their security-related questions and concerns. Qualifications 5+ years of experience in a security engineering or security-focused software engineering role. Ability to execute across a wide range of security functions such as security assessments, penetration testing, responsible disclosure, security tooling integration, etc. Familiarity with and experience using common industry tooling. Proven ability to identify vulnerabilities in software, demonstrated through CVEs, bug bounty, blog posts, or prior work experience. Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in partnering with engineering teams. Comfortable reading and writing code, and able to effectively leverage AI during the process. Bonus: Experience in the authentication and identity domain. Bonus: Experience writing production level code, especially developing security features. 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.