WorkOS
Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security
$175K–$275K
United States & Canada · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate infrastructure security systems for workload identity, service authentication, secret management, and centrally managed authorization.
What you'll do
- Build workload identity infrastructure that provides short-lived credentials to applications.
- Enable identity-based authentication for internal services and migrate applications from legacy authentication.
- Replace static secrets and build managed-secret egress/API abstractions; unify authorization policy management and enforcement.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on security-related platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Strong working knowledge of secrets management, fine-grained authorization, and workload identity systems.
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure for other teams, with attention to availability and failure modes.
- Proven ability to drive cross-team adoption of platform capabilities or lead large-scale migrations.
Pay
$175K – $275K USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, JWTs, X.509 certificates, PKI, cert-manager, SPIFFE/SPIRE, OPA
AI focus
Embrace AI and automation to scale platform work and reduce toil.
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