Principal Software Engineer, Workato
GO & Rust, Engine
Integration & workflow automation platform
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Integration & workflow automation platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses streamline their operations by providing a platform to automate their work and integrate their stacks, all in one place.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles
- Proven experience architecting both large microservice environments (100+ services) and monolithic applications
- Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code
- Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA)
- Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture
- Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries)
- Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day
- Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences
- Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects
- Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments
- Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps
- Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases
Desirable
- Additional Languages: Ruby, Rust, Python, Java, C++, Kotlin-multiplatform
- Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM, AWS KMS), Secrets Management (Vault), specific crypto algorithms
- Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), NoSQL databases, Redis clustering, stream processing (Flink, Spark)
- Cloud & Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2
- Community: Open source contributions, conference speaking, technical writing
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications
- Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang
- Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption
- Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components
- Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines
- Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback
- Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams
- Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards
- Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges
- Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications
- Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources
- Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes
Our take
Many businesses struggle with lack of team integration. There are a plethora of handy apps available, and various teams within businesses often use different processes, tools, and software. This has led to many businesses attempting to patch together technologies and create ad-hoc solutions that fail when they need to be scaled. Workato allows businesses to integrate data and apps so that teams can collaborate and communicate securely.
Workato has built a single platform that integrates apps, processes, data, and user experiences to improve efficiency, communication, and business flexibility. There are many integration platforms available, such as SnapLogic and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, however, Workato has aimed its platform at users who have minimal technical experience, rather than the IT team.
Workato has continued to expand its partnerships and workforce, and is well set to see further growth as it innovates its product offerings and capabilities. The company was recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, making five years it has participated and five years it has been recognized.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Sep 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
- Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions, and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
- Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.
- Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there's always time for a little fun on the calendars.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Vijay Tella
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent 15 years as an Engineer at Teknekron and TIBCO, before joining Oracle as CSO. They also served as CEO at Qik, and VP at Skype.
Harish Shetty
(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Previously held leadership roles in engineering at TIBCO, Blink, and iProfile.
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