Product Engineer - Pipes & Vault
AI summary of the role
Build Pipes & Vault products connecting third-party data, services, and secrets to apps and AI agents, forming backbone of customer data infrastructure and agentic workflows.
What you’ll do
- Design APIs, data connectors, and real-time pipelines for Pipes and Pipes MCP
- Architect encryption, secure storage, and secret management systems for Vault
- Contribute to Pipes MCP specification for agent authority over integrations
- Shape product direction and expand scope based on customer input
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years industry software development experience
- Experience on small teams in fast-paced environments
- Background in security, encryption, storage, multi-tenant isolation, or large-scale data platforms
Technologies
TypeScript · React · Postgres · APIs · encryption · key management · secret management · real-time pipelines · multi-tenant
About WorkOS
APIs and hosted components that help SaaS teams add enterprise auth, provisioning, authorization, auditability, and related controls without building them in-house.
Series C · 100–200 people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
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
More from the job description
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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] at 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 ✔️ [... source excerpt omitted ...] derstanding 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,
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