Workos
Software Engineer - Platform & Productivity
United States & Canada, Remote. Posted 10 months ago
The role
The Platform team builds shared backend components and development systems. You will design high-throughput backend systems and evolve CI/CD, build, test, and deployment infrastructure.
What you will do
- Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency shared backend systems
- Create platform interfaces and abstractions with a clean developer experience
- Rotate across and embed with product teams to understand workflows
- Collaborate with the Foundations team to introduce new systems and primitives
- Own and evolve CI/CD, build, test, deployment, and release infrastructure
- Reimagine CI/CD for an agentic software development lifecycle
- Instrument the software development lifecycle using metrics to identify bottlenecks
- Own platform reliability including observability, capacity planning, and incident response
- Shape long-term platform strategy and make build-versus-buy decisions
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience
- Experience building and operating distributed systems or platform services at scale
- Experience building or operating CI/CD, build systems, test infrastructure, or deployment platforms
- Track record of designing platforms, frameworks, and tooling with a clean developer experience
- Strong operational instincts across observability, capacity planning, incident response, and reliability
- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, or a strong interest in building agentic CI/CD systems
- Exceptional pragmatism and technical judgment
- Ability to move between long-term architecture and hands-on implementation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- Familiarity with TypeScript
- Familiarity with Node.js
- Familiarity with React
- Familiarity with Postgres
- Familiarity with AWS
- Familiarity with Terraform
- Familiarity with queueing or streaming systems such as SQS and Kinesis
Benefits
- 401k matching
- Competitive Equity
- Healthcare, dental and vision coverage
- FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life
- Carrot fertility benefits
- 20 days paid vacation
- 10 holidays
- unlimited sick leave
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active
- Monthly stipend for a massage, meditations class, therapy, or activities that enhance your well-being
- Unlimited token usage
About the company
WorkOS builds modern developer tools and APIs that make it easy for companies to become Enterprise Ready. Their platform powers authentication, identity, authorization, and other critical infrastructure.