Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-performance gateway and routing components in Go
• Own technical direction for your area: author design documents, lead architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and drive decisions to conclusion
• Build and evolve infrastructure for authentication, caching, rate limiting, request queuing, and traffic shaping
• Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to meet availability, scalability, and observability requirements
• Stay current with relevant technologies, protocols, and industry patterns
• Deliver features end-to-end: from design through production rollout and ongoing maintenance

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on backend development in Go
• Deep understanding of Go internals including scheduler, garbage collector, and memory model
• Strong systems programming foundation
• Deep network knowledge (TCP, TLS/mTLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, SSE)
• Applied cryptography knowledge
• Proven track record of designing and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Solid understanding of large-scale web infrastructure
• Experience authoring system/architecture design documents
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Reading-level familiarity with Ruby (on Rails)
• Familiarity with AI/LLM serving infrastructure
• Experience with Docker, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Redis-based caching and pub/sub patterns
• Exposure to API gateway or service mesh internals
• Integration with third-party REST/gRPC APIs at scale
• Contributions to open-source projects

About the Company

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform.