🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll design and evolve systems that improve the reliability and performance of WorkOS, a platform powering enterprise features for fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Vercel. You'll collaborate across teams to ensure services are production-ready, observable, and resilient, defining SLIs/SLOs and leading incident response. This early role on the SRE team offers the chance to shape reliability at scale for a well-funded, high-growth company.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design and evolve systems and tooling to improve reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure services are production-ready and resilient.
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs to guide reliability improvements.
• Write and optimize backend systems in TypeScript.
• Improve incident response process and lead postmortems.

📋 Requirements

• Experience operating and scaling production systems in cloud environments, specifically AWS.
• Familiarity with service reliability concepts such as monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Comfort working across infrastructure layers including compute, networking, and storage.
• Strong debugging and systems thinking skills to trace problems across services.

✨ Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems.
• Exposure to observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Experience with TypeScript or interest in working in a TypeScript codebase.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive pay and substantial equity grants.
• 🏥 Healthcare insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision) for you and your family.
• 🏖️ PTO + paid holidays + unlimited sick leave.
• 🏋️ Wellness and fitness monthly allowances.
• 🏠 Remote work autonomy and flexibility.

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3System Design Interview· 60 min
4. 4Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
5. 5Offer· N/A