Principal Software Engineer, GO & Rust (Engine)

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 Workatos 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

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. Thats 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

Responsibilities

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.

In this role you will also be responsible to:

• Architecture & Design

  • Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications

  • Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang

  • Architect secure fault-tolerant systems with automated failover circuit breakers and end-to-end encryption

  • Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components

  • Plan implementation phases migration strategies and feature deprecation timelines

• Architectural Governance & Collaboration

  • Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback

  • Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams

  • Partner with Product Managers Dev Leads Security SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards

  • Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives

  • Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges

• Documentation & Planning

  • Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs design documents runbooks and API specifications

  • Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources

  • Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• 8 years building scalable distributed systems with 3 years in System/Platform Architect roles

• Proven experience architecting both large microservice environments (100 services) and monolithic applications

• Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code

• Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers gRPC WebSockets Kafka event streaming PostgreSQL (partitioning replication HA)

• Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC JWT mTLS data encryption public key cryptography zero-trust architecture

• Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes Docker CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) distributed systems patterns (Saga circuit breakers retries)

• Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day

• Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences

• Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects

• Proven track record with feature flags gradual rollouts and zero-downtime deployments

• Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps

• Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities

• Experience with AI-assisted workflows particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.

Nice to Have

• Additional Languages: Ruby Rust Python Java C Kotlin-multiplatform

• Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM AWS KMS) Secrets Management (Vault) specific crypto algorithms

• Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio Linkerd) NoSQL databases Redis clustering stream processing (Flink Spark)

• Cloud & Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise PCI-DSS HIPAA SOC2

• Community: Open source contributions conference speaking technical writing

(REQ ID: 2885)

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Staff IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1