About Workato

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data applications processes and AI into a single governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500 Workatos 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

Why join us

Ultimately Workato believes in fostering a flexible trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles. We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.

But we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care. Thats why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.

If this sounds right up your alley please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!

Also feel free to check out why:

• 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

• Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area and 96th in North America

• Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers

Responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Developer (Ruby/Go) to join our growing Engine team. The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to Workato Recipe runtime. Everything related to recipe execution: DSL pulling events processing webhooks executing jobs. There are various aspects to it: performance scaling storage durability atomicity concurrency guarantees data protection and encryption.

In this role you will also be responsible to:

• Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications Ruby monolith application as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices.

• We also consider strong Ruby only candidates as well as Golang-only candidates who is open to learn some ruby.

• Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL isolation performance new features).

• Write well designed testable efficient code in Ruby and GOlang.

• Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc.

• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.

• Provide code reviews to your teammates.

• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems.

• Help maintain code quality organization and automatization.

• We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (5 years).

• Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases load balancers application servers message brokers caching monitoring etc.

• Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.

• Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.

• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.

• Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby with trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust.

• Excellent debugging analytical problem solving and social skills.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related subject 7 years of industry experience.

Optional

• Background in GO-lang and/or Rust.

• Background in network programming.

• Background in application data security.

• Deep knowledge of physical DB design.

• Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.

• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).

• Experience in related fields (DevOps ML DBA Enterprise applications etc).

• Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.

• Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling batch processing etc).

• Familiarity with WASM platform and toolchain.

• Kotlint-multiplatform

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.

(REQ ID: 2587)