Workato
Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Getaways)
Tbilisi, Georgia · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
GoRubyRailsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewRedisAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringRESTgRPCWebSocketsLLMsA/B TestingCollaboration
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?
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
- Deliver features end-to-end: from design through production rollout and ongoing maintenance
- 5+ years of hands-on backend development in Go, with strong command of concurrency patterns, performance profiling, and idiomatic design
- from design through production rollout and ongoing maintenance
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven track record of designing and scaling distributed, highly available systems
- Ability to identify bottlenecks at both the code level and the system level, and propose pragmatic solutions
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and deployment patterns
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience
Nice to have
- Reading-level familiarity with Ruby (on Rails) - the Workato platform core is Ruby-based and owned by other teams, but integration points require the ability to navigate and understand existing code
- Familiarity with AI/LLM serving infrastructure: model proxying, token metering, streaming protocols
- 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 (e.g., Envoy, Kong, custom proxies)
- Integration with third-party REST/gRPC APIs at scale (throttling, retries, circuit breaking, batch processing)
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Comfortable working in a globally distributed team across multiple timezones (the team spans Singapore, Europe, and the US)
Skills
- 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
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