Staff Software Engineer

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About Workato

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real‑time, driving efficiency and agility.

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. Balancing productivity with self‑care, we offer a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits employees can enjoy inside and outside of work.

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) to join our growing Engine team. The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to Workato Recipe runtime, focusing on recipe execution, DSL, event pulling, webhook processing, and job execution. Key technical domains include performance, scaling, storage, durability, atomicity, concurrency guarantees, data protection, and encryption.

In This Role, You Will Also Be Responsible To

Build/extend/troubleshoot/fix complex heterogeneous Golang and Ruby applications, as well as small self‑contained Golang microservices.
Improve execution engine of custom third‑party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features).
Write well‑designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Golang .
Integrate data storage solutions (Postgres, S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, ClickHouse, etc.).
Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
Provide code reviews to teammates.
Provide technical leadership and collaborate with other teams on shared projects.
Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
Explore new technologies; work with Rust and Wasm may be foreseen.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

Strong experience building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years).
Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms.
Deep knowledge 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.
Expertise in both classic relational databases and modern NoSQL technologies.
Knowledge of common data structures and algorithms (essential).
Multilingual programming experience; base code is primarily Ruby with migration to Golang and Rust . At least two languages are required.
Basic understanding of cloud deployments (k8s, Terraform, ArgoCD).
Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
Excellent debugging, analytical, problem‑solving, and interpersonal skills.
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, plus 7+ years of industry experience.

Optional

Background in Golang , Rust , WASM .
Background in network programming.
Background in Kotlin/Multiplatform.
Background in application or data security.
Deep knowledge of physical database design.
Experience with Docker and other isolation technologies.
Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc.).
Experience building/deploying data processing pipelines.
Experience working with third‑party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing, etc.).