Senior Software Engineer, GOlang

Summary

Join Workato as a Senior GOlang Engineer and build mission-critical features for our platform. You will develop high-performance gateways and routing components, build server-side infrastructure for logging and monitoring, and collaborate with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability. Responsibilities include contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle, writing efficient code, evaluating and proposing system improvements, and supporting continuous improvement by investigating and presenting alternative technologies. Workato offers a flexible, trust-oriented culture and a multitude of benefits. We are a fast-growing company recognized by industry leaders like Business Insider, Forbes, Deloitte, and Quartz.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 8+ years of industry experience
• Strong experience with GOlang language at backend (4+ years)
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills
• Good understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc
• Experience with building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Understanding of possible bottlenecks in a code and a solution in general
• At least basic knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and configuration

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance gateways and routing components
• Build server-side infrastructure for logging and monitoring
• Work closely with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability requirements are addressed
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Docker and other isolation technologies
• Experience with Redis based caching
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc)
• Experience with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc)
• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones
• Spoken English (at the level enough to pass technical interview and work with colleagues)
• Open to new technologies and willing to experiment
• Full-cycle product feature delivery mindset (from design to production and maintenance)
• Experience in Ruby on Rails is a plus
• Contributions to open source projects is a big plus