Product Engineer - Pipes & Vault

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 💭

The Pipes & Vault team is responsible for building products that connect third-party data, services, and secrets to applications and AI agents. They form a backbone of data infrastructure and agentic workflows for our customers:

Pipes connects external data sources to our customers’ apps and agents

Vault secures credentials and secrets that are used across fleets of agents

Pipes MCP defines authority for agents to take action through integrations

Unique to this team is that we also lead internal R&D efforts that leverage our products in novel ways. Examples include an agentic BI tool built on top of Pipes that reimagines how our support teams gets customer insights from internal data lakes, and a new web framework for apps with enterprise-grade security as the default.

You'll work across a wide surface area, designing APIs for integrations, building secure storage and key management systems, contributing to open-source specs, and prototyping entirely new developer tools. Engineers on this team care deeply about reliability, security, and developer experience, and move quickly between shipped product work and exploratory R&D.

Responsibilities ✔️

Design and build APIs, data connectors, and real-time pipelines that power Pipes and Pipes MCP

Architect systems for encryption, secure storage, key rotation, and secret management in Vault

Contribute to the Pipes MCP specification, defining how agents are granted scoped authority over integrations

Develop a deep understanding of the integrations and data infrastructure landscape and shape product direction across the team's portfolio

Expand product scope through value-add features based on customer input

Work closely with customers to understand integration, security, and compliance requirements

Collaborate with other product teams, solutions engineering, and our go-to-market team

Work directly with leadership on greenfield ideas

Help recruit and assess future engineering team members

Qualifications 🌟

5+ years of industry software development experience

Experience working on small teams in fast-paced environments

Background in building systems that solve for security, encryption, storage, multi-tenant data isolation, or large-scale data platforms

Intellectually curious, independently driven, and passionate about great products