Product Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

WorkOS is seeking a Product Security Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for keeping the data and identities of hundreds of millions of users secure. Security is fundamental to our products, and customer trust is the foundation of our success.

🏢 About WorkOS

WorkOS builds modern developer tools and APIs that make it easy for companies to become Enterprise Ready. Our platform powers authentication, identity, authorization, and other critical infrastructure that developers need to securely scale their products to large organizations. We recently raised a $100M Series C, valuing the company at $2B, led by Meritech and Sapphire with participation from Greenoaks, Craft, Abstract, and Audacious. WorkOS powers enterprise features for many of the fastest-growing AI companies, including OpenAI, Cursor, and Perplexity, Sierra, and Plaid.

🎯 The Role

As AI reshapes software, WorkOS is at the frontier of Human and Agent Authentication, Identity, and Access Control helping companies answer a new critical question: who are your agents, and what are they allowed to do? Our fast-growing customer base includes hundreds of modern software companies building the next generation of enterprise-ready products.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead secure design efforts. Partner with engineering teams on secure design and code reviews. Identify and prioritize risks early in the product lifecycle.
• Build secure by default systems. Develop paved paths that systemically reduce risk and make secure development the easiest path for engineers.
• Perform offensive security testing. Conduct penetration tests and code audits on new and existing products from an adversarial lens.
• Improve our security tooling. Integrate and improve our static analysis, supply chain security, and vulnerability management capabilities across engineering pipelines.
• Operate our responsible disclosure program. Run and improve our program by furthering automation, validating submissions, and coordinating remediation.
• Improve our products. Write and ship code to remediate vulnerabilities in production systems and improve the security posture of WorkOS products.
• Work directly with customers. Help build our customers' trust by directly engaging with their security-related questions and concerns.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a security engineering or security-focused software engineering role.
• Ability to execute across a wide range of security functions such as security assessments, penetration testing, responsible disclosure, security tooling integration, etc.
• Familiarity with and experience using common industry tooling.
• Proven ability to identify vulnerabilities in software, demonstrated through CVEs, bug bounty, blog posts, or prior work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in partnering with engineering teams.
• Comfortable reading and writing code, and able to effectively leverage AI during the process.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in the authentication and identity domain.
• Experience writing production level code, especially developing security features.

🎁 Benefits

The annual US base salary falls between $175K – $275K • Offers Equity

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.

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
Fitness: Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active
Wellness: Monthly stipend for a massage, meditations class, therapy, or activities that enhance your well-being
Commuter benefits for hybrid employees in SF/NYC
Unlimited token usage!

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

WorkOS is an equal opportunity employer.