Product Security Engineer

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 💭

WorkOS is growing rapidly and building out our team of engineers! We obsess over the developer experience, actively seeking out feedback and new perspectives to inform the products we build. We’re searching for engineers who share this empathetic approach to solving problems.

We’re looking for an experienced security engineer to join our team, responsible for defining and coordinating security efforts across the company. The role is both strategic and tactical, so we’ll be looking to you to influence long-term strategy while delivering on key pieces during our next phase of company growth.

Successful candidates will love staying up to date on the latest in cloud product security, authentication and identity domains. You’ll work across different teams to help make our products secure by design.

Responsibilities ✔️

• Be the product security champion. You’ll work closely with our product engineering teams to provide security guidance on all new and existing products

• Collaborate with the product engineering team to perform regular product security assessments

• Establish patterns and practices around application security

• Advocate for, and lead security projects from inception through completion

• Engage with security vendors as needed

• Triage and escalate security issues

Qualifications 🌟

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Security engineer in a cloud product company

• Proven experience performing security design reviews for complex applications, including distributed systems, APIs, and cloud services

• Familiar with common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws that apply to cloud services

• Great written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to complete rigorous security-focused code reviews in TypeScript

• Bonus: Experience in Auth and Identity domain

• Bonus: Experience writing production-level code, especially developing security features

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.