Product Engineer - Pipes & Vault

WorkOS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Substantial equity grants

Healthcare insurance

401k matching

Wellness and fitness allowances

Unlimited sick leave

Job summary

A tech company is seeking a skilled software developer to design and implement real-time encryption systems. You will collaborate with enterprise clients to address their security needs, enhance the Vault product, and mentor team members. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience in software development, strong communication abilities, and a background in security-related systems. The role offers competitive compensation with significant equity, along with a flexible remote work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry software development experience.
• Background in security, encryption, and data isolation.
• Intellectually curious and independently driven.

Responsibilities

• Architect systems for real-time encryption and secure storage.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers on security requirements.
• Explore new features for encryption and storage enhancements.

Skills

Software development

Security systems

Encryption

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

React

Postgres

Job description

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.

The Vault Team

The Vault team is responsible for building and scaling WorkOS Vault, our developer‑friendly encryption key management and secret storage product. Vault enables applications to encrypt, segment, and optionally store highly sensitive data—tokens, passwords, certificates, PII, API keys, files—backed by enterprise‑grade encryption and key management infrastructure. The vision for Vault is to make cryptography simple and fast, and the product currently serves tens of millions of encryption requests each day.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement systems for real‑time encryption, secure storage, key‑rotation, and data revocation across multi‑tenant applications
• Build deep domain expertise around encryption key management (EKM), envelope encryption, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key), and context‑based key isolation
• Work closely with enterprise customers to understand their compliance, key control, and security requirements—and translate that into features (e.g., key segmentation, audit logs, cryptographic deletion)
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with other product teams (e.g., AuthKit, Radar), solutions engineering, and GTM to ensure Vault integrates seamlessly into the broader platform
• On greenfield opportunities: explore new features such as field‑level encryption, e2e encryption, broader HSM integrations, client‑side SDK enhancements
• Help recruit, mentor, and grow the engineering team around Vault’s roadmap

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry software development experience
• Experience working on small teams in fast‑paced environments
• Background in building systems that solve for security, encryption, storage, multi‑tenant data isolation, or large‑scale data platforms
• Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products
• A growth mindset, high emotional intelligence, and strong communication skills
• Bonus: Experience with our stack of TypeScript, React, and Postgres
• Bonus: Experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, or a related industry

Benefits (US Only)

• 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

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.

Compensation Range: $175K – $250K