Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
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03-08-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 175000 - 250000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
03-08-2025
Job Description
About WorkOS
WorkOS builds tools and services for developers to help them implement authentication identity authorization and overall enterprise readiness. Were a fully distributed team with employees across North American time zones. Were 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 Site Reliability Engineering Team
The 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 smoothlyhandling 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 dowhether its designing scalable systems improving observability or leading incident response. If youre motivated by complex systems passionate about uptime and performance and excited to make reliability a first-class concernthis role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact.
Who were looking for
Were 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 youll 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 layersfrom compute and networking to storage databases and app runtime environments
- Are curious and proactive with a strong desire to understand systems end-to-end and uncover hidden failure modes
- Care deeply about uptime observability and performance and see reliability as a product feature
- Think through architectural trade-offs with reliability simplicity and maintainability in mind
- Take initiative work independently and follow throughfrom identifying reliability risks to driving improvements
- Collaborate well with engineers across disciplines and enjoy supporting teams through production readiness incident response and postmortem reviews
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 rotationresponding 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
Qualifications
- Experience operating and scaling production systems in cloud environments (we use AWS)
- Familiarity with service reliability conceptsmonitoring alerting incident response and root cause analysis
- Comfort working across infrastructure layers (e.g. compute networking storage observability tooling)
- Strong debugging and systems thinking skillsyou can follow problems across services and layers
- Ability to work independently take ownership and drive projects from problem discovery through resolution
- 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
Nice to have
The annual US base salary falls within the range of $175000 to $250000. 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)
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 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
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.
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