Workato

Workato

Software Engineer - AI Agent Platforms

San Francisco, California

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonFastAPIDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewPostgreSQLAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesLLMsRAGAgentic AIProblem Solving

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

  • You'll work on the event-driven services, real-time integrations, and APIs that enable agents to reliably perform real work while contributing to systems designed to scale rapidly.
  • Build and enhance scalable backend services that process work reliably in distributed environments.
  • Develop developer-facing APIs, integrations, and tooling, including real-time services, gateways, and CLIs.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, improve system reliability, and optimize performance as our platform grows.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, AI researchers, and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality developer products.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Python or another modern programming language, with experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, streaming, or asynchronous processing is a plus.
  • Experience deploying or supporting applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or modern infrastructure tooling is desirable.
  • Experience with observability tools, logging, metrics, or debugging production systems is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI applications, RAG, MCP, or agentic systems is a strong plus.

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

Company info

  • We're looking for a talented Software Engineer to help build the distributed backend that powers our AI agent platform and the developer-facing products around it.

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