Developer Experience Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About WorkOS \uD83D\uDE80

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

About the role \uD83D\uDCAD

As a developer-first company, WorkOS is committed to creating exceptional experiences for engineers. We're seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to elevate our DX and help make it the best in the industry.

We build and maintain SDKs in seven different languages, plus framework specific libraries. Regardless of which language or framework customers use, though, we want to make developing with WorkOS a joy. This role includes building and maintaining SDKs, open-source libraries, tooling, guides, and documentation.

Successful candidates will love programming languages and stay up-to-date on their developments and best practices. They’ll also enjoy working on OSS projects and bringing joy to developers through their work.

Requirements

• Own and expand our SDKs and other OSS projects like AuthKit and our Next.js library
• Create and maintain example apps for our users in a variety of language and framework combinations like Next.js and PHP
• Build best-in-class developer tools to delight our users, like the WorkOS CLI
• Speak with customers regularly to get feedback on the developer experience
• Provide expert insight on developer experience decision making across the company
• Structure work around customer impact first and help move the company forward
• Help shape the DX roadmap to continue improve the experience and bring developer joy
• Help recruit and assess future engineering team members
• Help represent the team publicly through blog posts, public docs and developer tooling

Responsibilities

The annual US base salary falls within the range of $175,000 to $250,000. This range does not encompass 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 considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.

For candidates outside the US, including Canada, compensation is adjusted based on local market benchmarks.

Benefits  ( US Only)  \uD83D\uDC96

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 :

Please inquire directly with our recruiting team for benefits available to those working outside the US.

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.