Engineering Manager

WorkOS•San Francisco, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

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. WorkOS is a developer platform that helps make apps enterprise-ready. We build tools and services for developers to help them implement features like Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Multi-Factor Auth, and Audit Logs. We're a fully-distributed team with employees across North America time zones. We're well-funded, having raised an $80M Series B. Our fast-growing customer base includes hundreds of rapidly growing SaaS companies like OpenAI, Vercel, Plaid, Perplexity, and Cursor. We’re hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of product engineers at WorkOS. We’re looking for a leader who is excited to manage engineers, but approaches the role as a startup founding member would. This role is ideal for someone with a builder’s DNA and you will play a key role in shaping product decisions, driving technical strategy, and empowering your team to execute on high-impact projects. You will also play a pivotal role in scaling the team, recruiting exceptional engineers. You’re not just excited about software—you’re obsessed with building the best developer platform.

Requirements

Track record of having successfully led product-focused engineering teams in high-performing organizations that shipped real impact
You've written code at a high level, and you still love to get your hands dirty. You view leadership as an amplifier, not a step back
Bias for action and scrappiness: You don’t over-optimize for process. You optimize for velocity, customer value, and learning
You deeply care about the developer experience. You think about UX, APIs, performance, edge cases, and joy
You ask "why" obsessively, and you push yourself (and your team) to learn constantly
You build trust, give direct feedback, and create space for engineers to thrive
You have experience partnering with internal recruiting teams to drive effective and fair hiring processes. You realize that recruiting is a large (and important!) part of your role.
A track record of recruiting, hiring, and mentoring top engineering talent.

Responsibilities

Build and lead high-velocity teams that ship product fast and with polish
Be deeply technical and hands-on: read the PRs, write prototypes, jump into the weeds
Take raw ideas and turn them into working systems, even if you have to duct tape the first version
Rally your team even when there is ambiguity, setbacks, or tough customer asks—run through walls when needed
Push for clarity, focus, and high energy in every sprint. Drive urgency without burning people out
Drive alignment on the roadmap and become an expert on customer needs related to the product areas your team owns
Spend time with customers and engineers alike—digging into pain points, testing assumptions, and improving the craft
Coach, mentor, and build a team of curious, scrappy, driven engineers—people who want to grow fast and build great things