Design Engineer

About WorkOS

WorkOS builds modern developer tools and APIs that make it easy for companies to become Enterprise Ready. Our platform powers authentication, identity, authorization, and other critical infrastructure that developers need to securely scale their products to large organizations.

We recently raised a $100M Series C, valuing the company at $2B, led by Meritech and Sapphire with participation from Greenoaks, Craft, Abstract, and Audacious. WorkOS powers enterprise features for many of the fastest-growing AI companies, including OpenAI, Cursor, and Perplexity, Sierra, and Plaid.

As AI reshapes software, WorkOS is at the frontier of Human and Agent Authentication, Identity, and Access Control helping companies answer a new critical question: who are your agents, and what are they allowed to do? Our fast-growing customer base includes hundreds of modern software companies building the next generation of enterprise-ready products.

About the role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You’ll sit directly with the Product Design team, alongside a group of designers who are AI-first builders, that work across a range of tools and constantly explore new workflows.

You’ll help prototype, build, and polish the experiences across the Dashboard, Admin Portal, AuthKit, Atlas, and more. You’ll help bring ambitious ideas to life by prototyping directly in code, validating with customers, and shipping production experiences with a high bar for craft. Your work reaches past the product itself: you’ll contribute to our design system and help improve how everyone at the company builds.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality components and interactions across WorkOS products

• Prototype concepts, build new products, and experiment with new interaction patterns

• Raise the quality of WorkDS, our design system, by improving performance, state, accessibility, and interaction behaviour

• Work alongside product teams to test your ideas with customers directly and make sure what ships is right

• Work in the open, sharing work in progress early, pulling others in to get to the right answer faster

• Improve how the company builds, through design system contributions and agent instructions

Qualifications

• You have an eye for design details, care deeply about craft, and have a history of shipping polished products

• You can articulate why you made a design decision, not just what you made. You think through alternatives, weigh tradeoffs, and consider how your choices affect the entire product.

• You account for real-world complexity - edge cases, error and empty states, accessibility, and technical constraints - without letting process slow you down. You ship, learn, and iterate.

• You’re equally comfortable in code as you are in Figma/Paper and work across tools to refine your explorations, while also being excited to explore new tools and workflows and share what you learn with the team.

• You work AI-first and have refined how you do it, are able to achieve high-quality output, and share your workflows with others

• You spot design gaps across the product and fix them without waiting to be asked. You default to showing work early, sharing prototypes in the open, and pulling in others to get to the right solution faster.

• Experience working on small teams in high-agency, fast-paced environments

• Bonus: Experience with our stack of TypeScript, React, and Radix

• Bonus: Experience with developer tools, enterprise software, or other technical products

Benefits and Perks (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.

• 401k matching

• Competitive Equity

• Healthcare, dental and vision coverage

• FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life

• Carrot fertility benefits

• 20 days paid vacation + 10 holidays + unlimited sick leave

• 12 weeks fully paid parental leave

• Fitness: Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations or whatever keeps you active

• Wellness: Monthly stipend for a massage, meditations class, therapy, or activities that enhance your well-being

• Commuter benefits for hybrid employees in SF/NYC

• Unlimited token usage!

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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.