Software Engineer, WorkOS
Infrastructure
$175-250k
Plus equity
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
Open for applications
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-250k
Plus 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
- 5+ years of overall software eng experience with 3+ years of experience building/scaling/maintaining/debugging product infrastructure
- Deep understanding of cloud services (AWS)
- "been there done that" with running large scale services and databases in cloud services
- Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products
- Expert-level skill in at least one programming language and familiarity with others
- Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
- Excellent prioritization skills
- Experience building and shipping web applications and/or API services end-to-end
- Our stack is TypeScript, React, and Postgres (bonus points if you are familiar with these, but it's not required)
- A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills
- Experience with mentorship for fellow team members
- Bonus: Experienced in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry
What the job involves
- Ability to influence long-term infra strategy while delivering infra pieces during a high growth phase
- Improve engineering operational excellence (metrics, alarms, oncall, incidents, internal tooling)
- Scope projects, document decisions, and flesh out epics and stories
- Build new SDKs and third-party integrations
- Spearhead development of tooling and instrumentation that improves our API reliability
- Debug user issues and adapt product to remove points of friction
- Our stack is TypeScript, React, and Postgres (bonus points if you are familiar with these, but it's not required)
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Total funding: $80m
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
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Leadership
Michael Grinich
(CEO)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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