Workato

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago

PythonFastAPIBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLKubernetesLLMsRAGCommunication

About the role

A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato's cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale.
With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business.
To learn more, visit www.workato.com Why join us?

You'll be building the systems that need to stay correct and available on our path to 1M users over the next year.
Build event-driven, horizontally-scalable backend services that process work reliably and correctly even when parts of the system fail.
Build real-time surfaces and integrations - streaming connections, gateways, and CLIs - that hold up under load.
Drive features end-to-end - from ideation and architecture through deployment, observability, and iteration.
You drive work end-to-end, from ambiguity to shipped and iterated, without waiting to be told.
You design for failure, not just the happy path.
You care about the users using what you build, not just the system behind it.

5+ years shipping and operating production backend systems at scale.
Strong proficiency in Python, and the judgment to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code under it.
You don't need prior experience with all of it - we care that you can pick it up fast.

Hands-on experience with event-driven, streaming, or real-time systems (queues, pub/sub, long-lived connections).
Comfortable operating services in production on Kubernetes in the cloud - and instrumenting them with metrics, tracing, and dashboards so you can debug what you ship.
Solid API and software-architecture instincts
you make and defend sensible trade-offs in ambiguity.
LLM/agentic and developer-facing product experience (MCP, RAG, APIs, SDKs, CLIs) a strong plus.

About Workato
To learn more, visit www.workato.com
Why join us?
Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles.
If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application.
Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"
Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to help build the distributed backend that powers our AI agent platform and the developer-facing products around it - the event-driven services, real-time integrations, and APIs that let agents reliably do real work.

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