Product Engineer - Authorization
About WorkOS 🚀
WorkOS builds tools and services for developers to help them implement authentication, identity, authorization, and overall enterprise readiness. We’re a fully distributed team with employees across North American time zones. We’re well-funded, having raised $100m in funding from top investors including Greenoaks Capital, Lachy Groom, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our fast-growing customer base includes rapidly growing SaaS companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of others.
About the role 💭
On this team, you will help build reliable, high-throughput systems, define new abstractions that make authorization requirements intuitive for developers, and design APIs that remain both scalable and simple. We are seeking engineers who are motivated by complex data modeling and distributed systems challenges, who take ownership of high-impact systems end to end, and who enjoy working directly with customers to deliver robust, production-ready products.
Responsibilities ✔️
Architect and implement high-performance authorization systems that support real-time policy evaluation, scalable relationship modeling, and consistent permission enforcement across multi-tenant applications
Build deep domain expertise in authorization paradigms such as RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, hierarchical FGA, and policy-driven access control, along with best practices for domain modeling and permission boundaries
Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their compliance, governance, and access control requirements, and translate those needs into product features such as delegated administration, advanced auditability, policy versioning, and conditional access
Collaborate cross-functionally with other product teams, solutions engineering, and GTM to ensure Authorization integrates seamlessly with the broader WorkOS platform, including AuthKit, SSO, Directory Sync, Audit Logs and related developer workflows
Explore new greenfield opportunities, including incremental authorization primitives, real-time change propagation, agent identity, policy workflows, richer SDK capabilities, and deeper ecosystem integrations
Play an active role in recruiting, mentoring, and developing the engineering team that will build and refine the Authorization product roadmap
Qualifications 🌟
5+ years of industry software development experience
Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
Background in building systems that solve for identity, authorization, storage, high throughput low latency, 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
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
Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.
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.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.