Site Reliability Engineer

OverviewAbout 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.Site Reliability Engineering TeamThe Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team ensures the WorkOS platform remains fast, reliable, and resilient at scale. We build the systems and practices that keep everything running smoothly—handling hundreds of millions of requests, minimizing downtime, and continuously improving service performance. Our team works across the stack and collaborates closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams. We embed reliability into everything we do—whether it’s designing scalable systems, improving observability, or leading incident response. If you’re motivated by complex systems, passionate about uptime and performance, and excited to make reliability a first-class concern—this role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact.Who we’re looking forWe’re looking for engineers who are excited to improve the reliability of complex systems and enjoy digging into how things work. As an early member of the SRE team, you’ll help shape our approach to reliability at scale and collaborate closely across the company. You might be a great fit if you:Bring a generalist mindset and are comfortable working across infrastructure layers—from compute and networking to storage, databases, and app runtime environmentsAre curious and proactive, with a strong desire to understand systems end-to-end and uncover hidden failure modesCare deeply about uptime, observability, and performance, and see reliability as a product featureThink through architectural trade-offs with reliability, simplicity, and maintainability in mindTake initiative, work independently, and follow through—from identifying reliability risks to driving improvementsCollaborate well with engineers across disciplines and enjoy supporting teams through production readiness, incident response, and postmortem reviewsResponsibilitiesDesign and evolve the systems, tooling, and processes that improve the reliability and performance of WorkOSCollaborate with product and infrastructure teams to ensure services are production-ready, observable, and resilient to failureDefine and measure SLIs/SLOs to guide reliability improvementsWrite and optimize backend systems (in TypeScript) with a focus on performance, maintainability, and graceful degradationImprove our incident response process, lead postmortems, and drive follow-through on reliability risksDevelop internal tools and automations that make it easier to operate and scale our systemsParticipate in our on-call rotation—responding to, resolving, and learning from production incidentsContribute to design and architecture discussions with a focus on operability and long-term sustainabilityDocument systems, share learnings, and help grow a reliability-minded engineering cultureQualificationsExperience operating and scaling production systems in cloud environments (we use AWS)Familiarity with service reliability concepts—monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysisComfort working across infrastructure layers (e.g. compute, networking, storage, observability tooling)Strong debugging and systems thinking skills—you can follow problems across services and layersAbility to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects from problem discovery through resolutionNice to haveFamiliarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systemsExposure to observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)Exposure to TypeScript or interest in working in a TypeScript-based codebaseSalary and benefitsThe annual US base salary ranges from $175,000 to $250,000. This range does not include the full spectrum of benefits such as equity, health insurance, vacation time, and paid parental leave. This salary range covers multiple levels of engineering roles and final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.For candidates outside the US, including Canada, compensation is adjusted based on local market benchmarks.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 paySubstantial equity grantsHealthcare insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision) for you and your family401k matchingWellness and fitness monthly allowancesPTO, paid holidays, and unlimited sick leaveAutonomy and flexibility with remote workPlease inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.Equal Opportunity EmployerWorkOS 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.Seniority levelNot ApplicableEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionEngineering and Information TechnologyIndustriesTransportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17