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

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.

In this role you will also be responsible to:

• Lead and scale the engineering organization responsible for Workatos 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 Workatos 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.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• 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.

Leadership and Personal Attributes

• 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.

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