Developer Experience Engineer

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, Vercel, and Plaid.

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE 💭

As a developer-first company, WorkOS is committed to creating exceptional experiences for engineers. We're seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to elevate our DX and help make it the best in the industry.

We build and maintain SDKs in seven different languages, plus framework specific libraries. Regardless of which language or framework customers use, though, we want to make developing with WorkOS a joy. This role includes building and maintaining SDKs, open-source libraries, tooling, guides, and documentation.

Successful candidates will love programming languages and stay up-to-date on their developments and best practices. They’ll also enjoy working on OSS projects and bringing joy to developers through their work.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and expand our SDKs https://workos.com/docs/sdks and other OSS projects like AuthKit https://github.com/workos/authkit and our Next.js library https://github.com/workos/authkit-nextjs

• Create and maintain example apps for our users in a variety of language and framework combinations like Next.js https://github.com/workos/next-authkit-example and PHP https://github.com/workos/php-authkit-example

• Build best-in-class developer tools to delight our users, like the WorkOS CLI https://github.com/workos/workos-cli

• Speak with customers regularly to get feedback on the developer experience

• Provide expert insight on developer experience decision making across the company

• Structure work around customer impact first and help move the company forward

• Help shape the DX roadmap to continue improve the experience and bring developer joy

• Help recruit and assess future engineering team members

• Help represent the team publicly through blog posts https://workos.com/blog?category=All+posts, public docs https://workos.com/docs and developer tooling https://github.com/workos

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of industry software development experience

• Has built, shipped and maintained SDKs and/or OSS projects

• Experience in community management and issue triage

• Experience owning projects and driving work based on customer impact

• Expert-level skill in three or more of our seven supported languages (Node/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, PHP, .NET)

• Experience in popular JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Next.js http://next.js/, Remix, Vue, Svelte, Angular)

• Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments

• Experience building and shipping web applications end-to-end

• Excellent prioritization and organization skills

• Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products

• A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills

• 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.