The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency shared backend: systems that preserve consistency and durability through retries, duplicates, reordering, partial failures, and high concurrency
Create platform interfaces, abstractions, and paved paths with a clean: developer experience that makes shared capabilities easy for product teams to adopt
Rotate across and embed with product teams to experience their workflows: directly, understand their friction, and use those insights to shape platform investments
Map evolving product-team needs and collaborate with the Foundations team to: introduce new systems and primitives, such as scalable search, database partitioning, and archival strategies
Own and evolve our CI/CD, build, test, deployment, and release infrastructure: to shorten feedback loops and make production changes safer
Reimagine CI/CD for an agentic software development lifecycle by building: isolated, reproducible, and verifiable execution environments, along with automated loops that allow agents to diagnose failures, update changes, rerun validation, and safely move work through review, deployment, and production verification
What they're looking for
- Instrument the entire software development lifecycle and use metrics such as: feedback time, CI reliability, deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate to identify bottlenecks and verify that platform investments improve engineering outcomes
- Own platform reliability end to end, including observability, capacity: planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and prevention
- Shape the long-term platform strategy with a high bar for introducing new: infrastructure. Thoroughly evaluate vendors and existing solutions, make deliberate build-versus-buy decisions, and account for operational complexity, lock-in, migration cost, reversibility, and long-term ownership
- + years of software development experience, with a track record of owning high-impact technical projects
