Forward Deployed Engineer, WorkOS
$200-240k
OTE
+ Substantial equity grants
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
Be an early applicant
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
OTE
+ Substantial equity grants
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort building across APIs and web stacks
- Proven ability to communicate clearly with customers and internal teams
- High agency: you proactively find problems and solve them (show us what you’ve built or led from 0→1)
- Excited by fast-paced, startup environments and ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong curiosity and adoption of modern tooling, including AI-assisted development workflows
- Bonus: Experience in developer tools, integrations, customer engineering, or technical consulting
What the job involves
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer at WorkOS, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and GTM and work directly with customers to solve real problems and accelerate time-to-value
- This role is for engineers with strong fundamentals, excellent communication, and unusually high agency. You’ll be customer-facing, but you’ll also build: prototypes, integrations, demos, and pragmatic solutions that unblock adoption and expansion
- Work directly with customers to design and implement solutions using WorkOS products
- Own technical outcomes end-to-end: discovery, architecture, implementation, iteration, and handoff
- Build lightweight tooling, scripts, demos, or proof-of-concepts to speed up customer success
- Identify blockers early, propose solutions, and drive momentum without waiting for instructions
- Partner with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers to support evaluations and expansions
- Share structured feedback with Engineering and Product to improve the platform based on real-world usage
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 is helping a wide range of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels and was bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builder Modulz, a deal that's broadening the scope of API products 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
(Founder & 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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