WorkOS · 7 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$175K/yr - $250K/yrWorkOS is a company that builds tools and services for developers, focusing on authentication and enterprise readiness. The Site Reliability Engineer will ensure the platform remains fast and reliable, collaborating with various teams to improve service performance and handle incidents effectively.
Developer APIsDeveloper ToolsInformation TechnologyOperating Systems
Responsibilities
Design and evolve the systems, tooling, and processes that improve the reliability and performance of WorkOS
Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to ensure services are production-ready, observable, and resilient to failure
Define and measure SLIs/SLOs to guide reliability improvements
Write and optimize backend systems (in TypeScript) with a focus on performance, maintainability, and graceful degradation
Improve our incident response process, lead postmortems, and drive follow-through on reliability risks
Develop internal tools and automations that make it easier to operate and scale our systems
Participate in our on-call rotation—responding to, resolving, and learning from production incidents
Contribute to design and architecture discussions with a focus on operability and long-term sustainability
Document systems, share learnings, and help grow a reliability-minded engineering culture
Qualification
Required
Experience operating and scaling production systems in cloud environments (we use AWS)
Familiarity with service reliability concepts—monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis
Comfort working across infrastructure layers (e.g. compute, networking, storage, observability tooling)
Strong debugging and systems thinking skills—you can follow problems across services and layers
Ability to work independently, take ownership, and drive projects from problem discovery through resolution
Preferred
Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
Exposure to observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
Exposure to TypeScript or interest in working in a TypeScript-based codebase
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
Company
WorkOS
WorkOS is a unified platform with modern APIs and SDKs for enterprise-ready features.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$95MKey Investors
GreenoaksLachy Groom
2022-06-01Series B· $80M
2020-05-27Series A· $15M
2020-03-18Seed
Leadership Team
Michael Grinich
Founder
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