About WorkOS 🚀
WorkOS builds tools for developers to help with authentication, identity, authorization, and enterprise-readiness. We're a fully-distributed team with employees across North America time zones. We're well-funded, having recently raised an $80M Series B. Our fast-growing customer base includes thousands of the most successful SaaS companies like Webflow, Vercel, Brex, PlanetScale, Loom, and Drata.
About the role 💭
Come join our fast-growing security team — we are passionate about ensuring that every corner of our product is safe and secure for the thousands of customers that trust us everyday for authentication and identity.We’re looking for an experienced security engineer who will help define and coordinate security efforts across WorkOS. The role is both strategic and tactical, so we’ll be looking to you to both influence long-term strategy while being hands-on; driving security best practices through deploying tooling, and engaging with engineering teams.
Responsibilities ✔️
- Operate with a high degree of independence and autonomy to remediate risks across our software and infrastructure.
- Advocate for, and lead security projects from inception through to completion.
- Be a product security champion. You will mentor our product engineering teams, and provide them with knowledge, support and guidance.
- Engage with all product engineering teams to perform security reviews and assessments, ensuring our products and features are secure by default.
- Scale our security posture by empowering engineering teams through automation, tooling, patterns and training.
- Produce clear and concise written reports, plans, findings, risks and recommendations for remediation.
- Collaborate professionally and effectively with teammates, security vendors, and customers.
- Know when to step in and out of a leadership role and share the spotlight: you lead the charge while elevating others
- Help recruit and assess future security engineering team members
Qualifications 🌟
- 5+ years of experience as a product security engineer at a cloud product company
- Previously built critical elements of a security program including processes (vulnerability management, bug bounty, etc.) and tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST, CNAPP, etc.)
- Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
- A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to complete rigorous security-focused code reviews in React and TypeScript.
- Software development experience to make code source code changes and build out automation.
- Proven experience performing security design reviews for complex applications, including distributed systems, APIs, and cloud services
- Bonus: Experience with authentication and identity standards and implementations
The annual US base salary falls within the range of $175,000 to $250,000. This range does not encompass the full spectrum of benefits such as equity, health insurance, vacation time, and paid parental leave. Final compensation will be determined considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.Benefits (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.Benefits include:- Competitive pay- Substantial equity grants- Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family- 401k matching- Wellness and fitness monthly allowances- PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave- Autonomy and flexibility with remote work
Equal Opportunity Employer
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.Apply for this job
