Vice President of Engineering, Workato
3+ days a week in office
Control & execution platform for enterprise AI
Open for applications
Control & execution platform for enterprise AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3+ days a week in office
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
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading product-focused engineering organizations and engineering leaders
- Proven track record building and scaling developer platforms, developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or infrastructure products
- Strong technical depth in modern developer ecosystems, API design, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and software development workflows
- Experience building products for technical audiences with a strong focus on developer experience and usability
- Demonstrated deep understanding of modern AI developer tooling, agent frameworks, LLM application architectures, and developer workflows
- Demonstrated success partnering closely with Product Management, Research, Sales, Marketing, and Design to deliver customer-centric solutions
- Experience using telemetry, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making to improve product adoption and platform performance
- Exceptional engineering leader with strong product instincts and customer empathy
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into execution
- Strong communicator and collaborator who builds trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Data-driven, execution-oriented, and comfortable operating in fast-paced environments
- Passion for engaging with developer communities and shaping the future of developer platforms and AI-native software development
What the job involves
- Workato is seeking a VP of Engineering, Developer Products & Platforms to lead the engineering organization responsible for our developer platform and tooling experience
- This leader will design, build and operate our developer products and Otto superagent
- The role will partner closely with Design, Marketing, and AI Research teams to deliver world-class experiences that enable customers and partners to build, extend, and innovate on the Workato platform
- Based onsite in San Francisco, you will lead a high-performing team focused on developer tooling, platform extensibility, ecosystem integrations, and developer adoption
- You will combine deep technical expertise, strong product instincts, and operational excellence to help shape the future of developer experiences at Workato
- Lead and scale the engineering organization responsible for Workato's developer platform, including developer tools, SDKs, IDE extensions, APIs, and platform services
- Partner with Product Management and executive leadership to shape platform strategy, define engineering priorities, and execute against company objectives
- Collaborate with Workato's AI researchers to ideate, prototype, validate, and ship AI developer-facing tools
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering organization, including engineering managers and senior individual contributors
- Drive delivery of developer-facing products, including the Workato CLI, VS Code Extension, language SDKs, and related platform capabilities
- Ensure seamless integration with leading developer frameworks, orchestration platforms, and emerging AI ecosystems
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Developer Relations, and AI Research teams to bring new platform capabilities to market
- Influence product direction and investment decisions through a deep understanding of developer needs, market trends, and emerging technologies
- Establish engineering best practices for scalability, reliability, security, observability, and developer experience
- Define and monitor engineering, product adoption, and platform health metrics to guide investment and prioritization decisions
- Champion developer ergonomics, documentation quality, platform usability, and community engagement
- Serve as a key executive voice representing the needs of developers across the company
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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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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