Remote
US
$175K–$185K
💻Engineering
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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.
The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team ensures the WorkOS platform remains fast, reliable, and resilient at scale. We build the systems and practices that keep everything running smoothly—handling hundreds of millions of requests, minimizing downtime, and continuously improving service performance. Our team works across the stack and collaborates closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams. We embed reliability into everything we do—whether it’s designing scalable systems, improving observability, or leading incident response. If you’re motivated by complex systems, passionate about uptime and performance, and excited to make reliability a first-class concern—this role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact.
We’re looking for engineers who are excited to improve the reliability of complex systems and enjoy digging into how things work. As an early member of the SRE team, you’ll help shape our approach to reliability at scale and collaborate closely across the company. 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, databases, and app runtime environments
- Are curious and proactive, with a strong desire to understand systems end-to-end and uncover hidden failure modes
- Care deeply about uptime, observability, and performance, and see reliability as a product feature
- Think through architectural trade-offs with reliability, simplicity, and maintainability in mind
- Take initiative, work independently, and follow through—from identifying reliability risks to driving improvements
- Collaborate well with engineers across disciplines and enjoy supporting teams through production readiness, incident response, and postmortem reviews
Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects from problem discovery through resolution
Nice to have
Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
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.
Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.
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.
USD 175,000 - 275,000
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Fitness Stipend
Mental Health Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability Insurance
Life Insurance
401(k) / Retirement Plan
401(k) Match
Equity / RSUs
Commuter Benefits
PTO / Vacation
Paid Holidays
Unlimited Sick Days
Flexible Schedule
Home Office Stipend
AI Tools Stipend
Parental Leave
Fertility Benefits
Entrepreneurship Encouraged
Most open roles are remote, but some are hybrid and tied to the San Francisco or New York hubs. Current hybrid listings include sales roles such as Account Executive and Business Development Representative, as well as Recruiter, Solutions Engineer and engineering leadership positions, while engineering and product roles are largely listed as remote.
Most remote listings on the WorkOS jobs board are labelled 'USA time zones.' The careers page describes its benefits as US-only and says comparable benefits are provided outside the US, so candidates elsewhere should ask the recruiting team directly what applies to them.
The careers page and job postings list medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents, a 3% 401k match, 20 days of paid yearly vacation, 10 holidays plus unlimited sick leave, and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave. Employees also get monthly fitness and mental wellness stipends, a home office equipment stipend, equity, Carrot fertility benefits, an FSA, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
In a 2021 engineering blog post, WorkOS described using Threads as its primary tool for making product and other decisions asynchronously, as an alternative to meetings, Slack and email. The same post said the team keeps shared core hours across time zones for the meetings that do need to happen live.
WorkOS job postings list unlimited token usage as a benefit. The company also runs a monthly 'Claude Day,' an internal one-day hackathon.
