Staff Software Engineer

Workato is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their growing Engine team. The team develops and maintains the Workato Recipe runtime, responsible for execution, performance, and scaling. The role requires experience in building scalable distributed backend applications, excellent understanding of distributed systems, and multilingual programming experience. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in software engineering and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Requirements

• Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years)
• Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms
• Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
• Excellent understanding of network protocols and stacks
• Excellent understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL
• Knowledge of all common basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must
• Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with a trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust. At least two languages are required
• At least basic understanding of cloud deployments (k8s, Terraform, ArgoCD)
• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience