Software Engineer, Platform & Productivity at WorkOS

Role overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate software for platform and developer productivity engineering.
• Collaborate with product, design and engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Translate user and business needs into maintainable product capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience, with a track record of owning high-impact technical projects
• Experience building and operating distributed systems or platform services at scale, with a strong understanding of event-driven systems, queues, concurrency, idempotency, consistency, backpressure, retries, and failure recovery
• Experience building or operating CI/CD, build systems, test infrastructure, deployment platforms, or similar developer tooling
• A track record of designing platforms, frameworks, and tooling with a clean developer experience that makes complex capabilities easy for other engineers to adopt and operate
• Strong operational instincts across observability, capacity planning, incident response, and reliability
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, or a strong interest in building agentic CI/CD systems, verifiable execution environments, automated feedback loops, evaluations, and verification
• Exceptional pragmatism and technical judgment. You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system
• Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs in an ambiguous environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience documenting systems and influencing technical direction across teams
• Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, and queueing or streaming systems such as SQS and Kinesis is helpful, but not required
• We expect strong depth in either distributed platform systems or developer infrastructure, along with an interest in working across both.

Technology in this role

• TypeScript: You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs .
• React: You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs .
• Node.js: You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs .
• AWS: You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs .
• C: We recently raised a $100M Series C, valuing the company at $2B, led by Meritech and Sapphire with participation from Greenoaks, Craft, Abstract, and .
• Terraform: You treat major infrastructure changes with the gravity they deserve and make deliberate, evidence-based decisions about when to build, buy, or improve an existing system Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation while making thoughtful tradeoffs .
• CI/CD: 8+ years of software development experience, with a track record of owning high-impact technical projects Experience building and operating distributed systems or platform services at scale, with a strong understanding of event-driven systems, queues, concurrency, idempotency, .
• CAN: Success means they can build and operate products faster, adopt shared capabilities instead of creating one-off solutions, and confidently delegate more work to .

Benefits

• 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.
• Healthcare, dental and vision coverage
• FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life
• 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
• Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the 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.

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