Engineering Manager, Workato
Data Processing Engines
Control & execution platform for enterprise AI
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Control & execution platform for enterprise AI
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
- Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management
- Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers
- A strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms
- Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi-quarter engineering initiatives
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices
- Experience managing technical debt alongside product and business priorities
- Ability to understand complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
- Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
- A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy
Desirable
- You are comfortable joining a team where engineers may understand individual systems more deeply than you do
- Instead of trying to become the technical owner of every component, you ask the right questions, understand trade-offs, create clarity, and help engineers make good decisions together
- You enjoy finding problems in the engineering system itself: unclear ownership, slow reviews, hidden dependencies, fragmented tooling, competing priorities, or processes that depend too heavily on individuals pushing things forward
- You can move between a conversation about architecture or CI pipelines, a 1:1 with an engineer, roadmap prioritization with Product, and a discussion about why delivery is taking longer than expected
- You are comfortable aligning your team roadmap with requirements from Product Managers, and from Engineering leadership, which may be different, and working with different stakeholders in general
- Most importantly, you combine technical credibility with strong people and execution leadership
- Golang or Rust; understanding of WASM platform
- Basic understanding of formal grammar, AST, compiler frontends
- Observability and operational tooling
- Open-source development
- AI-assisted software development and automated code review
- PostgreSQL or database infrastructure
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure
- Multi-repository development environments
- Developer-facing APIs, SDKs, libraries, or integrations
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems
- This role sits at the intersection of project management, engineering leadership, and platform development
- The team (Evaluation Engines / Data processing engines) owns foundational components which are embedded into higher level workflow engines and tools
- Examples are formula evaluation, data transformation according to predefined mapping, decision models, etc
- The team is technically strong and highly autonomous
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can operate effectively in this environment: someone with a strong engineering background who understands complex systems, but does not need to be the deepest technical expert in every area
- Your role will be to help experienced engineers work effectively together, create clarity across interconnected initiatives, and improve how the team plans, collaborates, and delivers
- You will manage and develop experienced engineers with significant ownership of their technical domains. The team is mostly Rust engineers, however they also build libraries for several other programming languages: Go, Ruby, Java, Python, and WASM
- You will be responsible for regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and team health
- We expect you to create an environment where engineers can remain highly autonomous while having clear priorities, ownership, and accountability. You will be responsible for team capacity planning and hiring when needed
- You will be working closely with Product Managers and department VP to define how the products look, what to build and in which order, what new exciting features we can bring to our customers. As this area is highly technical and speaks Computer Science terms at times, Product Managers will greatly rely on your and your team expertise to make decisions
- You will be responsible for working with Quality Engineering and Product Security teams to deliver high-quality products. At the same time in this AI era we expect you to embrace new tools to shift quality and security scans left
- Own planning and operational execution across multiple engineering workstreams
- Create visibility into priorities, dependencies, timelines, and resource allocation
- Help the team turn broad technical direction into an executable roadmap
- Identify and remove blockers before they significantly impact delivery
- Balance new development, customer commitments, operational work, and technical debt
- Define meaningful engineering metrics and use them to identify opportunities for improvement
- Keep stakeholders informed about progress, risks, and trade-offs
- Plan release and update cycles of the product
- Maintain the product, be responsible for defects triaging and mitigation
- This is strictly not a purely people-management role
- Technical background and experience is a must
- We don't expect you to be a fluent Rust developer, we in fact are not expecting you to know Rust at all
- But you should be comfortable participating in technical discussions, reviewing designs and architecture proposals, understanding engineering trade-offs, and challenging assumptions when needed
- You should have a wide industry knowledge, and understand the pros and cons of different programming languages and platforms
- Depending on your background and interests, you may also review code, contribute to tooling or prototypes, participate in incident investigation, or use automation and AI-assisted development to improve engineering workflows
- At the same time, we do not expect the Engineering Manager to make every technical decision
- Senior engineers (your team will contain a mix of engineers up to Staff and Architect levels) own significant parts of the technical direction, and a key part of the role is enabling them to do that effectively
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.
Steph
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 want to empower our employees to give us their 110%, and still be able to fully live their personal lives beyond what they do at Workato.
- Great Employee Benefits: Our employee benefits are designed not just to help everyone at Workato fulfill their basic and tangible needs, but also feel appreciated for their contributions to the company.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We are invested in the long-term professional development of our people, beyond what they bring to the table on their first day at work. 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 & Recreation Time: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better. 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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