Developer Experience Engineer

About WorkOS 🚀

WorkOS builds tools and services for developers to help them implement authentication, identity, authorization, and overall enterprise readiness. We’re a fully distributed team with employees across North American time zones. We’re well-funded, having raised $100m in funding from top investors including Greenoaks Capital, Lachy Groom, and Lightspeed Ventures. Our fast-growing customer base includes rapidly growing SaaS companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of others.

About the role 💭

As a developer-first company, WorkOS is committed to creating exceptional experiences for engineers. We're seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to elevate our DX and help make it the best in the industry.

We build and maintain SDKs in seven different languages, plus framework specific libraries. Regardless of which language or framework customers use, though, we want to make developing with WorkOS a joy. This role includes building and maintaining SDKs, open-source libraries, tooling, guides, and documentation.

Successful candidates will love programming languages and stay up-to-date on their developments and best practices. They’ll also enjoy working on OSS projects and bringing joy to developers through their work.

Responsibilities

• Own and expand our SDKs and other OSS projects like AuthKit and our Next.js library

• Create and maintain example apps for our users in a variety of language and framework combinations like Next.js and PHP

• Build best-in-class developer tools to delight our users, like the WorkOS CLI

• Speak with customers regularly to get feedback on the developer experience

• Provide expert insight on developer experience decision making across the company

• Structure work around customer impact first and help move the company forward

• Help shape the DX roadmap to continue improve the experience and bring developer joy

• Help recruit and assess future engineering team members

• Help represent the team publicly through blog posts, public docs and developer tooling

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry software development experience

• Has built, shipped and maintained SDKs and/or OSS projects

• Experience in community management and issue triage

• Experience owning projects and driving work based on customer impact

• Expert-level skill in three or more of our seven supported languages (Node/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, PHP, .NET)

• Experience in popular JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Next.js, Remix, Vue, Svelte, Angular)

• Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments

• Experience building and shipping web applications end-to-end

• Excellent prioritization and organization skills

• Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products

• A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills

• Bonus: Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry

Benefits (US Only) 💖

At WorkOS, we offer resources that emphasize personal and familial well-being. We offer healthcare coverage for you and your family, including medical, dental, and vision. We offer parental leave, paid-time off and fully remote working arrangements.

Benefits include:

- Competitive pay

- Substantial equity grants

- Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family

- 401k matching

- Wellness and fitness monthly allowances

- PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave

- Autonomy and flexibility with remote work

Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WorkOS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.