Infrastructure Engineer

• The Infrastructure team powers the core systems behind the WorkOS platform. We build and maintain the foundation that keeps everything running smoothly—handling millions of requests, operating at scale, and ensuring our systems are fast, reliable, and always on for our customers
• Our team works across the stack and partners closely with teams throughout the company. We regularly step in to support high-impact projects, contribute architectural perspective, and ensure systems are built to scale
• If you’re curious by nature, motivated by complex challenges, and enjoy working across infrastructure layers—this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact
• Design and maintain the distributed systems that power core parts of WorkOS
• Write and optimize backend services in TypeScript, with attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Evolve our use of AWS and Infrastructure as Code to scale systems intelligently and sustainably
• Partner with product engineering teams to ensure systems are built with reliability and scale in mind
• Build internal tools and shared infrastructure to support engineers across the company
• Participate in our on-call rotation—responding to, resolving, and learning from production incidents
• Contribute to technical design reviews and architectural discussions
• Document your work, share context, and help level up the team through thoughtful collaboration
• Bring a spirit of curiosity—experimenting, iterating, and helping us find better ways to build and operate our systems

Benefits

• WorkOS pays 90% of premiums for employees and dependents to help keep your family healthy

• WorkOS provides a 3% match of your 401k contributions to help you save for retirement

• Relax and recharge with 20 days of paid yearly vacation. We also offer 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents

• Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations, or whatever keeps you active

• Monthly stipend for a massage, meditation class, therapy, or activities that enhance your mental well-being

• Outfit your working space with a stipend for equipment that will keep you comfortable and productive

• Work independently, take ownership, and follow through—from identifying a need to shipping a solution

• Are curious and proactive, with a strong desire to understand how systems work end-to-end

• Bring a generalist mindset and are comfortable working across infrastructure layers—from compute and networking to storage and databases

• Enjoy thinking through architecture and infrastructure design, and can balance trade-offs between simplicity, scalability, and reliability

• Care deeply about observability, reliability, and performance, and treat them as essential to the user experience

• We’re looking for engineers who are excited to work on foundational systems and enjoy collaborating across the stack. You might be a great fit if you:

• Partner well with product engineering teams to design systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to operate

• Experience designing, building, and operating infrastructure or internal platform systems

• Familiarity with modern cloud environments (we use AWS) and orchestration tools (like Kubernetes)

• 5+ years of experience

• Nice to have: Exposure to TypeScript or willingness to work in a TypeScript-based stack

• Comfort working in a culture of autonomy and ownership