Principal Software Engineer, GO & Rust (Engine)

<div class="content-intro"><h1><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Workato</strong></span></h1>

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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 <a class="link" href="https://www.workato.com/" data-tooltip-link-label="undefined">workato.com</a>.</span></p>

<h1><strong>Why join us?</strong></h1>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a </span><strong>flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We are driven by </span><strong>innovation </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">and looking for</span><strong> team players </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">who want to actively build our company.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, we also believe in </span><strong>balancing productivity with self-care</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment </span><a href="http://www.workato.com/careers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">along with a multitude of benefits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!</span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, feel free to check out why:</span></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/47-enterprise-startups-to-bet-your-career-on-in-2020-2019-12"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Business Insider</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”</span></p>

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<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#a57477b5f941"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forbes’ Cloud 100</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world</span></p>

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<p><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deloitte Tech Fast 500</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America</span></p>

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<p><a href="https://qz.com/work/2053446/the-best-companies-for-working-from-home/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quartz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers</span></p>

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</ul></div><h1><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h1>

<p>We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform.</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this role, y</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ou will also be responsible to:</span></p>

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<p>Architecture &amp; Design</p>

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<p>Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications</p>

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<p>Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang</p>

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<p>Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption</p>

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<p>Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components</p>

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<p>Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines</p>

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<p>Architectural Governance &amp; Collaboration</p>

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<p>Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback</p>

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<p>Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams</p>

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<p>Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards</p>

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<p>Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives</p>

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<p>Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges</p>

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<p>Documentation &amp; Planning</p>

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<p>Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications</p>

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<p>Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources</p>

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<p>Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes</p>

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<h1><strong>Requirements</strong></h1>

<h3><strong>Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills</strong></h3>

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<p>8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles</p>

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<p>Proven experience architecting both large microservice environments (100+ services) and monolithic applications</p>

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<p>Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code</p>

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<p>Communication &amp; Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA)</p>

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<p>Security &amp; Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture</p>

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<p>Infrastructure &amp; Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries)</p>

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<p>Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day</p>

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<p>Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences</p>

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<p>Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects</p>

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<p>Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments</p>

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<p>Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps</p>

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<p>Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities</p>

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<p>Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.</p>

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<h3><strong>Nice to Have</strong></h3>

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<p>Additional Languages: Ruby, <strong>Rust</strong>, Python, Java, C++, Kotlin-multiplatform</p>

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<p>Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM, AWS KMS), Secrets Management (Vault), specific crypto algorithms</p>

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<p>Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), NoSQL databases, Redis clustering, stream processing (Flink, Spark)</p>

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<p>Cloud &amp; Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2</p>

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<p>Community: Open source contributions, conference speaking, technical writing</p>

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<p><strong>(REQ ID: 2885)</strong></p>

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