# Software Engineer - Platform & Productivity 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: 2026-01-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workos/07a7d732-ac5d-4aab-b4bf-ee89951660c2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workos-software-engineer-platform-and-productivity/

## About the role

The Platform team builds the shared backend components and development systems that every WorkOS product, workflow, and team member depends on.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software development experience, with a track record of owning high-impact technical projects
- Experience building and operating distributed systems or platform services at scale, with a strong understanding of event-driven systems, queues, concurrency, idempotency, consistency, backpressure, retries, and failure recovery
- Experience building or operating CI/CD, build systems, test infrastructure, deployment platforms, or similar developer tooling
- A track record of designing platforms, frameworks, and tooling with a clean developer experience that makes complex capabilities easy for other engineers to adopt and operate
- Strong operational instincts across observability, capacity planning, incident response, and reliability
- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents, or a strong interest in building agentic CI/CD systems, verifiable execution environments, automated feedback loops, evaluations, and verification

Tags: Engineering