Corporate Security Engineer

Summary

Join WorkOS's Security team as a CorpSec Engineer and play a crucial role in protecting company and customer data. You will focus on internal security, ensuring the security of our people, devices, and systems. This role involves hands-on work improving access controls, endpoint security, and tooling, as well as strategic thinking to shape security within a modern startup. You will own and improve identity and access management systems, administer security tools, partner with infrastructure teams, develop automations, identify and mitigate risks, and shape security policies. The ideal candidate possesses experience with corporate security and endpoint management in a cloud-native environment, enjoys system ownership, balances security best practices with usability, and is comfortable working independently and collaboratively. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Experience with identity, access, and endpoint security tools (e.g. Okta, MDM, EDR)
• Familiarity with cloud-native IT/security operations and SaaS environments
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment
• A practical mindset and a bias for simplicity and security-by-default

Responsibilities

• Own and improve our identity and access management systems (Okta, Google Workspace, etc.)
• Administer and secure our MDM and endpoint protection tools (e.g. Kandji, EDRs)
• Partner with Infra to implement controls for least privilege, audit logging, and change management
• Develop automations and tooling for onboarding/offboarding, access reviews, and audit prep
• Proactively identify security risks and lead the rollout of mitigations
• Help shape security policies and practices that work well for engineers, not against them
• Work with vendors and evaluate new tools as needed
• Document systems and decisions clearly to support scale and clarity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a startup or on a small security team
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks
• Scripting or automation experience (e.g. Python, Bash, Terraform)

Benefits

• 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