# Product Security Engineer at WorkOS

- Company: WorkOS
- What the company does: Developer APIs/SDKs for Enterprise Ready features like Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Logging, and more. Get started for free. Backed by Lightspeed and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://workos.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States & Canada
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workos/31b8c9a3-149c-491f-8bec-cbb5f18d575b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workos-product-security-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Risk-focused and pragmatic. You excel at identifying and reasoning about security risk in real-world contexts. You prioritize ruthlessly, always asking: what's the most effective way to reduce risk right now and in the long term?
- A strong partner to engineering. You build trust with engineers by understanding their priorities, making security frictionless, and finding ways to make the secure path, the easiest path
- Excited about AI. You're embracing AI and automation to scale security and reduce toil
- Curious and humble. You ask the basic questions, enjoy untangling complex systems, and bring others along with you
- 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

Tags: Engineering