Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Infrastructure Engineer position at WorkOS, a fully distributed team building tools and services for developers to implement authentication, identity, authorization, and enterprise readiness. 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 Infrastructure Team

The Infrastructure team powers the core systems behind the WorkOS platform. We build and maintain the foundation that keeps everything running smoothly—handling millions of requests, operating at scale, and ensuring our systems are fast, reliable, and always on for our customers. Our team works across the stack and partners closely with teams throughout the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the distributed systems that power core parts of WorkOS
• Write and optimize backend services in TypeScript, with attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Evolve our use of AWS and Infrastructure as Code to scale systems intelligently and sustainably
• Partner with product engineering teams to ensure systems are built with reliability and scale in mind
• Build internal tools and shared infrastructure to support engineers across the company
• Participate in our on-call rotation—responding to, resolving, and learning from production incidents
• Contribute to technical design reviews and architectural discussions
• Document your work, share context, and help level up the team through thoughtful collaboration
• Bring a spirit of curiosity—experimenting, iterating, and helping us find better ways to build and operate our systems

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience
• Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure or internal platform systems
• Familiarity with modern cloud environments (we use AWS) and orchestration tools (like Kubernetes)
• Comfort working in a culture of autonomy and ownership
• Nice to have: Exposure to TypeScript or willingness to work in a TypeScript-based stack

Benefits

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.