Software Engineer - Productivity

About WorkOS

WorkOS builds tools and services for developers to help them implement authentication, identity, authorization, and overall enterprise readiness. We’re a fully distributed team with employees across North American time zones. We’re well‑funded, having raised $100m in funding from top investors including Greenoaks Capital, Lachy Groom, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our fast‑growing customer base includes rapidly growing SaaS companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of others.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced engineer to optimize how our team produces code and collaborates to build WorkOS. You’ll be skilled at building trust and credibility across the engineering team, while identifying pain points and recommendations to improve how we build software internally. You’ll serve as bridge between infrastructure, product, and leadership to make sure our tools and systems are maturing alongside our product.

Responsibilities ✔️

• Conducting internal research to understand each of our engineers and how they work
• Building cross‑functional trust by listening to and understanding each of your teammates
• Synthesizing the variety of needs and asks into a cohesive strategy that leadership will understand and support
• Interfacing with leadership & vendors to procure the right tools and environments to suit your teammates
• Improving internal tooling across the company
• Crafting a long‑term strategy that makes appropriate tradeoffs with short‑term needs and asks
• Being a credible and visible voice at the company to make sure people know they’re being heard and understood
• Optimizing codebase patterns, building toolchains, CI

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience rolling out team‑wide process/tooling changes
• Ability to identify the tradeoffs & needs of companies as they scale; ideally you’ve seen how both start‑ups & mature companies operate
• Understanding of developer tool chains, including IDEs, text editors, compilers, debuggers and shells
• Experience writing documentation, including technical guides, coding standards and tutorials
• 8+ years experiences in software development
• Our stack is TypeScript, React, and Postgres (bonus points if you are familiar with these, but it's not required)

The annual US base salary falls within the range of $150,000 to $250,000. This range does not encompass the full spectrum of benefits such as equity, health insurance, vacation time, and paid parental leave. Final compensation will be determined considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.

For candidates outside the US, including Canada, compensation is adjusted based on local market benchmarks.

Benefits (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.

Benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Substantial equity grants
• Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family
• 401k matching
• Wellness and fitness monthly allowances
• PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave
• Autonomy and flexibility with remote work

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.