Solutions Engineer
AI summary of the role
Solutions Engineer at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales, working directly with customers to design/implement solutions using WorkOS products and accelerate time-to-value.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement customer solutions using WorkOS products
- Own technical outcomes: discovery through handoff
- Lead demos and proof-of-concepts
- Partner with Account Executives on evaluations/expansions
What you’ll bring
- Strong engineering fundamentals across APIs/web stacks
- Pre-sales experience
- Clear communication with customers/internal teams
- High agency: built/led projects 0→1
Technologies
APIs · web stacks · AI-assisted development · developer tools · integrations · SSO · authentication · authorization
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
Technical pre-sales · Evidence for this classification:
building the next generation of enterprise-ready products. About the role As a Solutions Engineer at WorkOS, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales and work directly with customers to solve real problems and accelerate time-to-value. This role is for engineers or solutions 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. 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 Lead demos and proof-of-concepts Identify blockers early, propose solutions, and drive momentum without waiting for instructions Partner with Account
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 As a Solutions Engineer at WorkOS, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and sales and work directly with customers to solve real problems and accelerate time-to-value. This role is for engineers or solutions 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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] s Partner with Account Executives to support evaluations and expansions Share structured feedback with Engineering and Product to improve the platform based on real-world usage Qualifications Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort building across APIs and web stacks Pre-sales experience 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 Bonus: Experience in developer tools, integrations,
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