Security Engineer, WorkOS
$175-250k
+ Equity
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
Open for applications
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-250k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced security engineer who will help define and coordinate security efforts across WorkOS
- The role is both strategic and tactical, so we’ll be looking to you to both influence long-term strategy while being hands-on; driving security best practices through deploying tooling, and engaging with engineering teams
- 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
Our take
The inspiration for WorkOS came from the founder’s previous email startup, Nylas, and the difficulties he faced in crossing what he calls “the enterprise chasm.” The challenge of serving enterprise clients, and meeting their stringent security and admin requirements, is one that many B2B SaaS startups face as they start to scale.
WorkOS steps in at this critical stage, providing a single API driven platform which enables its customers to easily integrate with the major vendors that provide enterprise security and admin solutions. For example, rather than building individual integrations with each of the single sign-on (SSO) providers, a customer would only need to integrate with WorkOS in order to support these solutions.
Enterprise features that WorkOS is providing building blocks for include Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Trail, and more. WorkOS are helping a whole host of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels, and have been bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builders Modulz, a deal that will widen the scope of API products that WorkOS can offer.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Total funding: $80m
Company 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
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Michael Grinich
(CEO)Earned a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. Previously worked in the Engineering team at Dropbox, in the Design team at Nest and was the Founder & CEO of Nylas for 4 years.
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