Software Engineer – Infrastructure Security

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About the role

  • Infrastructure Security Engineer building workload identity, authentication, and authorization infrastructure. WorkOS provides developer tools and APIs for enterprise-ready software.

Responsibilities

  • Build workload identity infrastructure that makes short-lived identity credentials a default part of every application's runtime environment.
  • Bring identity-based authentication to internal services using identity certificates and establish them as the golden path for new applications.
  • Drive migration of existing internal services from legacy authentication approaches.
  • Replace static passwords and service tokens with short-lived identity credentials.
  • Build identity-authenticated egress proxies and API abstractions that inject and automatically rotate managed secrets for external dependencies.
  • Build a unified interface and framework for centrally managing and enforcing authorization policies.
  • Partner with application platform owners and internal dependency owners.
  • Drive adoption across engineering teams while making security frictionless.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on security-related platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
  • Strong working knowledge of secrets management, fine-grained authorization, and workload identity systems.
  • Familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem and authentication/authorization technologies such as JWTs, X.509 certificates, PKI, cert-manager, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and OPA.
  • Experience building and operating production infrastructure that other teams depend on, with attention to availability and failure modes.
  • Proven ability to drive cross-team adoption of platform capabilities or lead large-scale migrations.
  • Deep knowledge of authentication and authorization, including JWTs and X.509 certificates.
  • Ability to work legally in the United States; sponsorship question is included in the application.

Benefits

  • 401k matching
  • Competitive Equity
  • Healthcare, dental and vision coverage
  • FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life
  • Carrot fertility benefits
  • 20 days paid vacation + 10 holidays + unlimited sick leave
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active
  • Monthly stipend for a massage, meditations class, therapy, or activities that enhance your well-being
  • Commuter benefits for hybrid employees in SF/NYC
  • Unlimited token usage!
  • Fully remote working arrangements

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$175,000 - $275,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Distributed SystemsKubernetes

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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