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 Infrastructure Team The Infrastructure team powers the core systems behind the WorkOS platform. We build and maintain the foundation that keeps everything running smoothly—handling millions of requests, operating at scale, and ensuring our systems are fast, reliable, and always on for our customers. Our team works across the stack and partners closely with teams throughout the company. We regularly step in to support high-impact projects, contribute architectural perspective, and ensure systems are built to scale. If you’re curious by nature, motivated by complex challenges, and enjoy working across infrastructure layers—this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact. Who we’re looking for We’re looking for engineers who are excited to work on foundational systems and enjoy collaborating across the stack. You might be a great fit if you: - Bring a generalist mindset and are comfortable working across infrastructure layers—from compute and networking to storage and databases - Enjoy thinking through architecture and infrastructure design, and can balance trade-offs between simplicity, scalability, and reliability - Are curious and proactive, with a strong desire to understand how systems work end-to-end - Partner well with product engineering teams to design systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to operate - Care deeply about observability, reliability, and performance, and treat them as essential to the user experience - Work independently, take ownership, and follow through—from identifying a need to shipping a solution Responsibilities ✔️ * Design and maintain the distributed systems that power core parts of WorkOS * Write and optimize backend services in TypeScript, with attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability * Evolve our use of AWS and Infrastructure as Code to scale systems intelligently and sustainably * Partner with product engineering teams to ensure systems are built with reliability and scale in mind * Build internal tools and shared infrastructure to support engineers across the company * Participate in our on-call rotation—responding to, resolving, and learning from production incidents. * Contribute to technical design reviews and architectural discussions * Document your work, share context, and help level up the team through thoughtful collaboration * Bring a spirit of curiosity—experimenting, iterating, and helping us find better ways to build and operate our systems Qualifications 🌟 * 5+ years of experience * Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure or internal platform systems * Familiarity with modern cloud environments (we use AWS) and orchestration tools (like Kubernetes) * Comfort working in a culture of autonomy and ownership * Nice to have: Exposure to TypeScript or willingness to work in a TypeScript-based stack 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.

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