Senior Golang Engineer
- India
Posted 2 days ago
About the role
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, Workato’s 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 www.workato.com
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. 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 an exceptional Senior Golang Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will design and build highly scalable backend services, distributed systems, and API infrastructure that power Workato's automation platform. You will collaborate closely with product, UI, connectivity, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to deliver elegant, reliable, and high-performance solutions to complex engineering challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance connectors using Golang.
- Provide technical leadership in microservices architecture, establishing best practices for RESTful and gRPC API design.
- Contribute throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and maintenance.
- Write clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Conduct deep performance tuning and optimization to eliminate bottlenecks in high-scale production environments.
- Participate in architecture discussions and propose improvements to existing systems.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve system stability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend improvements to engineering practices.
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing production applications with Golang.
- Strong experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
- Strong understanding of Go concurrency patterns — goroutines, channels, context management
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented and idiomatic Go design principles
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and microservices.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, HTTP, gRPC, and messaging systems.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and caching technologies including Redis or Memcached.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to a broad audience and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience writing unit, integration, and performance tests.
- Contributions to Open Source projects are a plus.
Job Req ID: 2399