Product Engineer, WorkOS
Vault
$175-250k
+ Equity
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
Be an early applicant
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-250k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for Engineers to join this team that are motivated by solving deep security and infrastructure problems, owning high-impact systems end-to-end, and working closely with customers to deliver robust products,
- 5+ years of industry software development experience
- Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
- Background in building systems that solve for security, encryption, storage, multi-tenant data isolation, or large-scale data platforms
- Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products
- A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills
- Bonus: Experience with our stack of TypeScript, React, and Postgres
- Bonus: Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry
What the job involves
- The Vault team is responsible for building and scaling WorkOS Vault, our developer-friendly encryption key management and secret storage product
- Vault enables applications to encrypt, segment, and optionally store highly sensitive data—tokens, passwords, certificates, PII, API keys, files—backed by enterprise-grade encryption and key management infrastructure
- The vision for Vault is to make cryptography simple and fast, and the product currently serves tens of millions of encryption requests each day
- On this team you’ll work on building reliable, high-throughput systems, defining new abstractions for developer-friendly encryption, and crafting APIs that both scale and stay simple
- Architect and implement systems for real-time encryption, secure storage, key-rotation, and data revocation across multi-tenant applications
- Build deep domain expertise around encryption key management (EKM), envelope encryption, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), and context-based key isolation
- Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their compliance, key control, and security requirements—and translate that into features (e.g., key segmentation, audit logs, cryptographic deletion)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other product teams (e.g., AuthKit, Radar), solutions engineering, and GTM to ensure Vault integrates seamlessly into the broader platform
- On greenfield opportunities: explore new features such as field-level encryption, e2e encryption, broader HSM integrations, client-side SDK enhancements
- Help recruit, mentor, and grow the engineering team around Vault’s roadmap
Our take
The inspiration for WorkOS came from the founder’s previous email startup, Nylas, and the difficulties he faced in crossing what he calls “the enterprise chasm.” The challenge of serving enterprise clients, and meeting their stringent security and admin requirements, is one that many B2B SaaS startups face as they start to scale.
WorkOS steps in at this critical stage, providing a single API driven platform which enables its customers to easily integrate with the major vendors that provide enterprise security and admin solutions. For example, rather than building individual integrations with each of the single sign-on (SSO) providers, a customer would only need to integrate with WorkOS in order to support these solutions.
Enterprise features that WorkOS is providing building blocks for include Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Trail, and more. WorkOS are helping a whole host of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels, and have been bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builders Modulz, a deal that will widen the scope of API products that WorkOS can offer.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- WorkOS pays 90% of premiums for employees and dependents to help keep your family healthy
- WorkOS provides a 3% match of your 401k contributions to help you save for retirement
- Relax and recharge with 20 days of paid yearly vacation. We also offer 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents
- Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations, or whatever keeps you active
- Monthly stipend for a massage, meditation class, therapy, or activities that enhance your mental well-being
- Outfit your working space with a stipend for equipment that will keep you comfortable and productive
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Grinich
(CEO & Founder)Earned a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. Previously worked in the Engineering team at Dropbox, in the Design team at Nest and was the Founder & CEO of Nylas for 4 years.
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