The Role
The Developer Success Engineer serves as the primary contact for developers, offering technical guidance, troubleshooting support, and mentoring junior team members to enhance the developer experience with WorkOS products.
Summary Generated by Built In
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:
WorkOS is continuing to build our Developer Success Engineering team.
As WorkOS is a technical product made by developers, for developers, Developer Success Engineers are critical to the customer experience. You will be on WorkOS’s front line, talking with developers, building developer relationships, and making the developer experience the best it can be.
You will be the expert on our products and main point of contact between our engineers and developers (customers). You’ll help developers get unblocked and succeed by providing guidance, debugging support, and integration advice.
This role is best suited for someone who is technically-minded, empathetic, passionate, and loves solving problems under pressure.
Working hours: 7am - 4pm US ET
What you'll do:
- Work with our users daily via Slack, email, and Zoom
- Understand and be an expert in WorkOS’s products and codebase, supporting technologies such as SAML/OIDC, REST APIs, and modern frontend frameworks
- Provide technical advice to developers on best practices for integrating with our API
- Act as a hard + soft skill mentor and escalation point to junior members of the team
- Troubleshoot any issues that arise from the developer and diagnose any blockers
- Engage customers for feedback to help shape product development
- Work cross-functionally within the company
- Working hours: 7am - 4pm US ET
What you have already accomplished:
- 2+ years experience in a technical customer-facing support role for a developer-focused product
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Passion for educating and breaking down complicated concepts
- Quick learner and relentlessly inquisitive
The annual US base salary falls within the range of $130-150k USD. This range does not encompass the full spectrum of benefits such as equity, health insurance, vacation time, and paid parental leave. This salary range covers multiple levels of engineering roles and final compensation will be determined considering various factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications.
For candidates outside the US, including Canada, compensation is adjusted based on local market benchmarks.
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.
Top Skills
Frontend Frameworks
Rest Apis
Saml/Oidc
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The Company
What We Do
WorkOS provides APIs to make your app enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Add Single Sign-On (SSO) to your app for free.
