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 💭
The Vault team is responsible for building and scaling WorkOS Vault, our developer-friendly encryption key management and secret storage product. Vault enables applications to encrypt, segment, and optionally store highly sensitive data—tokens, passwords, certificates, PII, API keys, files—backed by enterprise-grade encryption and key management infrastructure. The vision for Vault is to make cryptography simple and fast, and the product currently serves tens of millions of encryption requests each day.
On this team you’ll work on building reliable, high-throughput systems, defining new abstractions for developer-friendly encryption, and crafting APIs that both scale and stay simple. We’re looking for Engineers to join this team that are motivated by solving deep security and infrastructure problems, owning high-impact systems end-to-end, and working closely with customers to deliver robust products,
Responsibilities ✔️
Architect and implement systems for real-time encryption, secure storage, key-rotation, and data revocation across multi-tenant applications
Build deep domain expertise around encryption key management (EKM), envelope encryption, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), and context-based key isolation
Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their compliance, key control, and security requirements—and translate that into features (e.g., key segmentation, audit logs, cryptographic deletion)
Collaborate cross-functionally with other product teams (e.g., AuthKit, Radar), solutions engineering, and GTM to ensure Vault integrates seamlessly into the broader platform
On greenfield opportunities: explore new features such as field-level encryption, e2e encryption, broader HSM integrations, client-side SDK enhancements
Help recruit, mentor, and grow the engineering team around Vault’s 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 security, encryption, storage, multi-tenant data isolation, 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
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. This salary range covers multiple levels of engineering roles and final compensation will be determined considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.
For candidates outside the US, including Canada, compensation is adjusted based on local market benchmarks.
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.
