Senior Software Engineer (GOlang, Engine)
Job description
Backend engineering role on Workato's Engine team, which develops and maintains core components of the Workato Recipe runtime, including recipe execution, DSL, event pulling, webhook processing, and job execution. The role focuses on modernizing a high-throughput distributed platform in Go to improve reliability, scalability, and long-term evolvability.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Design and implement distributed backend systems in Go with deep consideration of performance and memory behavior.
- Work on runtime-level components operating under high concurrency and throughput.
- Apply in-depth knowledge of Go internals (scheduler, memory model, garbage collection behavior) to improve system efficiency.
- Design and optimize concurrent workflows using goroutines, channels, synchronization primitives, and context propagation.
- Analyze and optimize slice usage, memory allocations, and data structures for performance-critical paths.
- Improve execution engine for custom third-party code (isolation, performance, feature extensions).
- Modernize runtime components with focus on modularity, structured architecture, and observability.
- Improve trigger configuration and execution across webhooks and polling mechanisms.
- Integrate and optimize data storage solutions (Postgres, S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, ClickHouse).
- Identify bottlenecks, race conditions, deadlocks, and performance degradation in distributed systems.
- Own initiatives end-to-end, from design to rollout and production support.
- Conduct code reviews with emphasis on correctness, concurrency safety, and performance characteristics.
What we're looking for
- Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years).
- Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
- Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.
- Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.
- Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.
- Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust.
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience.
- Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.
Nice to have
- Background in network programming.
- Background in application, data security.
- Deep knowledge of physical DB design.
- Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.
- Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
- Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).
- Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.
- Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).
Your team
Engine team
Develops and maintains core components of the Workato Recipe runtime, including recipe execution, DSL, event pulling, webhook processing, and job execution; owns trigger and event infrastructure.
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About Workato
The leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI
Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500, Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer.
Key facts
- Named an "enterprise startup to bet your career on" by Business Insider
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- Ranked by Deloitte Tech Fast 500 as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area and 96th in North America
- Ranked by Quartz as the #1 best company for remote workers
- Has run mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500
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What they value
- Flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles
- Innovation
- Team players who want to actively build the company
- Balancing productivity with self-care