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, and drive decisions
• 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
• 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 and deep network knowledge (TCP, TLS, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket)
• Applied cryptography knowledge including encryption and certificate chains
• Proven track record of designing and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and deployment patterns
• 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 like Envoy or Kong

About the Company

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application and data source to power real-time orchestration at scale.