Forward Deployed Engineer

WorkOS•San Francisco, CA

26d•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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience in developer tools, integrations, customer engineering, or technical consulting

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