WorkOS
Security Engineer
WorkOS
$175k - $250k
Americas (Remote)
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React
TypeScript
Cybersecurity

Security Engineer

Overview

WorkOS is hiring a Security Engineer to join their fast-growing security team, ensuring the safety and security of their products for thousands of customers.

Job Description

WorkOS builds tools for developers to help with authentication, identity, authorization, and enterprise-readiness. They are a fully-distributed team with employees across North America time zones and have a fast-growing customer base including successful SaaS companies.

Responsibilities

  • - Operate with a high degree of independence and autonomy to remediate risks across our software and infrastructure
  • - Advocate for, and lead security projects from inception through to completion
  • - Be a product security champion. You will mentor our product engineering teams, and provide them with knowledge, support and guidance
  • - Engage with all product engineering teams to perform security reviews and assessments, ensuring our products and features are secure by default
  • - Scale our security posture by empowering engineering teams through automation, tooling, patterns and training
  • - Produce clear and concise written reports, plans, findings, risks and recommendations for remediation
  • - Collaborate professionally and effectively with teammates, security vendors, and customers
  • - Know when to step in and out of a leadership role and share the spotlight: you lead the charge while elevating others
  • - Help recruit and assess future security engineering team members

Required Skills

  • - 5+ years of experience as a product security engineer at a cloud product company
  • - Previously built critical elements of a security program including processes (vulnerability management, bug bounty, etc.) and tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST, CNAPP, etc.)
  • - Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments
  • - A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • - Ability to complete rigorous security-focused code reviews in React and TypeScript
  • - Software development experience to make code source code changes and build out automation
  • - Proven experience performing security design reviews for complex applications, including distributed systems, APIs, and cloud services
  • - Bonus: Experience with authentication and identity standards and implementations

Benefits

  • - 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
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About the company

WorkOS

WorkOS is a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to your app. You’ll be shipping quickly with a market-proven solution for your customers.