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!

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• Business Insider named us an enterprise startup to bet your career on

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• 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

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Enterprise Retrieval team youll help build the retrieval layer that powers enterprise AI agents at Workato. Your work will let an agent answer whats the status of the Acme renewal by stitching together a Salesforce opportunity a call summary the latest Zendesk ticket a Jira blocker and a SharePoint contract all in one ranked permission-aware response.

This is the kind of problem where classical Information Retrieval dense vector retrieval knowledge graphs and LLM-driven reasoning all collide. Youll work across heterogeneous content (docs tickets tasks CRM records call transcripts chat threads) heterogeneous permissions (every source has its own ACL model) and very real freshness constraints (yesterdays answer is often wrong).

Its a hands-on Senior IC role for someone who wants to go deep on retrieval quality and see their work directly shape how thousands of enterprises put AI agents to work.

In this role you will also be responsible to:

• Build a unified retrieval layer across enterprise systems Google Drive SharePoint Confluence Jira Asana Zendesk Freshdesk Salesforce Notion and more exposing a clean agent-friendly interface.

• Design hybrid retrieval pipelines that combine lexical (BM25) dense vector and structured (SQL/graph) retrieval with smart re-ranking tuned for cross-source results.

• Engineer ingestion and freshness pipelines that incrementally sync millions of documents tickets tasks and CRM records with low end-to-end latency and predictable cost.

• Own permission-aware retrieval (ACL preservation) make sure the engine never returns a document a user (or their agent) isnt entitled to see mirroring source-system permissions exactly.

• Build query understanding for agents intent parsing entity linking across systems (a customer in Salesforce is the same as in Zendesk) and LLM-assisted query rewriting and decomposition.

• Design chunking and embedding strategies tailored to each content type long docs short tickets threaded conversations structured records call transcripts.

• Build evaluation and experimentation harnesses (NDCG MRR faithfulness citation accuracy) for both retrieval and end-to-end agent answers.

• Ship production-grade observable systems with strong SLOs on latency freshness recall and cost and the dashboards/tracing to prove it.

• Mentor teammates and raise the bar on retrieval architecture evaluation rigor and engineering craft.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• 3-5 years building production search retrieval knowledge-base or recommendation systems.

• Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language Python Go Java or similar.

• Hands-on experience with search engines such as OpenSearch Elasticsearch Solr or Vespa including index design and analyzers.

• Solid grounding in IR fundamentals: TF-IDF BM25 learning-to-rank query parsing and relevance evaluation.

• Working experience with vector search and embeddings FAISS pgvector Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant Milvus or native Elasticsearch/OpenSearch kNN.

• Experience designing or contributing to RAG pipelines and semantic search systems in production.

• Familiarity with modern NLP/LLM tooling: transformer embeddings cross-encoder re-rankers prompt engineering and frameworks like LangChain LlamaIndex or Haystack.

• Comfortable building integrations against SaaS APIs (REST/GraphQL/webhooks) handling OAuth rate limits pagination and incremental sync.

• Solid intuition for ACL/permission models in enterprise systems (Drive sharing SharePoint groups Jira project roles Salesforce sharing rules etc.) and how to preserve them in a retrieval layer.

• Strong SQL skills comfort with NoSQL/document stores and experience with large-scale distributed systems.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) containerization and CI/CD.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Clear communicator who can explain technical trade-offs to engineers PMs and executives alike.

• Collaborative you partner naturally with ML product security and platform teams.

• Quality-obsessed and detail-oriented with an instinct for measurable outcomes over vibes.

• Self-directed; comfortable taking an ambiguous problem from zero to shipped.

• Genuinely curious about the hard interesting problems hiding inside enterprise retrieval heterogeneity permissions freshness and trust.

Nice to Have

• Experience with knowledge graphs entity resolution or cross-source identity linking.

• Experience tuning or fine-tuning embedding models (sentence-transformers BGE E5 etc.) for domain-specific retrieval.

• Exposure to agentic AI patterns tool use function calling MCP or multi-step retrieval planning.

• Experience with streaming/real-time ingestion (Kafka Flink Spark) and cost optimization at scale.

• Background in enterprise search e-discovery observability or DLP anywhere youve had to handle messy multi-source content with strict access controls.

• Open-source contributions published research or writing on retrieval IR or applied ML.

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