WorkOS

Forward Deployed Engineer

WorkOS • $120K — $160K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering fundamentals with experience in APIs and web stacks
  • Excellent communication skills for customer and team interactions
  • Demonstrated high agency in problem-solving and project leadership
  • Thrives in fast-paced startup environments with ambiguity
  • Curious and adaptive to modern tools, including AI development workflows
  • Bonus: Background in developer tools, integrations, customer engineering, or technical consulting

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with customers to design and implement tailored solutions using WorkOS products
  • Take ownership of technical processes from discovery to handoff
  • Create tools, scripts, and demos to enhance customer success
  • Proactively identify and resolve blockers to maintain project momentum
  • Work closely with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers for evaluations and expansions
  • Provide actionable feedback to Engineering and Product teams for platform enhancement

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
  • Substantial equity grants
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) for you and your family
  • 401k matching plan
  • Monthly wellness and fitness allowances
  • Generous PTO including paid holidays and unlimited sick leave
  • Flexible and autonomous remote work arrangements
Full 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.
About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at WorkOS, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and GTM and work directly with customers to solve real problems and accelerate time-to-value.

This role is for engineers with strong fundamentals, excellent communication, and unusually high agency. You'll be customer-facing, but you'll also build: prototypes, integrations, demos, and pragmatic solutions that unblock adoption and expansion.

Responsibilities •
  • Work directly with customers to design and implement solutions using WorkOS products
  • Own technical outcomes end-to-end: discovery, architecture, implementation, iteration, and handoff
  • Build lightweight tooling, scripts, demos, or proof-of-concepts to speed up customer success
  • Identify blockers early, propose solutions, and drive momentum without waiting for instructions
  • Partner with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers to support evaluations and expansions
  • Share structured feedback with Engineering and Product to improve the platform based on real-world usage
Qualifications
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort building across APIs and web stacks
  • Proven ability to communicate clearly with customers and internal teams
  • High agency: you proactively find problems and solve them (show us what you've built or led from 0→1)
  • Excited by fast-paced, startup environments and ambiguous problem spaces
  • Strong curiosity and adoption of modern tooling, including AI-assisted development workflows
  • Bonus: Experience in developer tools, integrations, customer engineering, or technical consulting

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.

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.

About WorkOS

WorkOS is a software company that provides developer tools for building enterprise-grade applications. The company was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and Hayley Griffin. WorkOS' mission is to make it easy for developers to build applications that integrate with enterprise systems. The company's flagship product is the WorkOS API, which provides a set of tools for building enterprise-grade applications that integrate with popular identity providers, such as Google and Microsoft. WorkOS has raised $10 million in funding from top investors, including Founders Fund and Gradient Ventures.
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