# Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security 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/ffba59a1-cead-4231-bd2d-a24649c6a3b9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workos-software-engineer-infrastructure-security/

## About the role

Build workload identity infrastructure. Make short-lived identity credentials a default part of every application's runtime environment, in partnership with application platform owners. Bring identity-based authentication to internal services. Work with the owners of major internal dependencies to support identity certificates, make them the golden path for newly onboarding applications, and drive migration of existing ones.

## What they're looking for

- A platform builder. You love building infrastructure that other engineers rely on every day, and you sweat the developer experience details that make adoption effortless
- Fluent in service-to-service auth. You know authentication and authorization deeply: JWTs, X.509 certificates, and when to reach for each
- A systems thinker. You reason carefully about bootstrapping, circular dependencies, availability, and failure modes, especially for infrastructure that everything else depends on
- A pragmatic migrator. You know that shipping the primitive is half the job. You can drive adoption across many teams, meet them where they are, and retire the legacy path
- A strong partner to engineering. You build trust with engineers by understanding their priorities and making security frictionless
- Excited about AI. You're embracing AI and automation to scale platform work and reduce toil

Tags: Engineering