Senior Software Engineer (Golang - Platform team)

Workato is the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI — the neutral platform enterprises trust to put AI to work across their business. Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500 — including Nasdaq, Amazon, Cisco, Vodafone, Atlassian, and Lucid Motors — Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer. For more information, visit workato.com.

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. That’s 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

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Golang) to join our Platform team. Our platform is a large-scale system combining a Ruby on Rails monolith with a growing ecosystem of Go microservices. In this role, you will build and maintain business logic and enterprise-grade features for the Workato platform, including on-premise features, authentication, caching, work queuing, and APIs.
You will also be expected to:

• Design, build, and maintain Go microservices with a focus on correctness and reliability.
• Implement business logic and enterprise-quality standards across the platform.
• Collaborate with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability requirements are met.
• Contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.

Product & Technology Context:

• Strong web development background, with experience building user-facing products — including UI, business logic, and integrations with external APIs.
• Product-minded engineering experience: you understand how technology ties back to user and business needs, not just infrastructure.
• Track record of shipping user-facing business features across product platforms, developer experience platforms, or other customer-facing surfaces.
• Solid production experience — typically 7+ years — with the depth and maturity to build and support systems in production.
• Clear understanding of how web applications work end-to-end, and how the different pieces fit together to deliver a product or business outcome.
• Depth and consistency in technical background — we value engineers who've built real expertise over time, rather than hopping across many different stacks.
• Our core platform is a Ruby on Rails monolith, with some Go services handling more focused functions alongside the Ruby/monolith team. Experience with these is a plus, but we care most about strong engineering fundamentals and product experience.
• This role isn't primarily ML/LLM-focused, so candidates whose recent experience has been mostly in ML/LLM work may not be the strongest fit here.

Required

• 7+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Solid experience with Go on the backend (2+ years).
• Good debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of core building blocks of web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc..
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience building B2B systems.
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc.).
• Experience with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing, etc.).
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Readiness to work with teams distributed across multiple timezones.
• Strong spoken and written English.
• Curiosity and openness toward new technologies; willingness to experiment.
• Ownership mindset — comfortable taking features from design through to production and maintenance.

REQ ID: 2423