About Workato
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.
Responsibilities
We are looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) to join our growing Engine team. The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to Workato Recipe runtime. Everything related to recipe execution: DSL, pulling events, processing webhooks, executing jobs. There are various aspects to it: performance, scaling, storage, durability, atomicity, concurrency guarantees, data protection, and encryption.
In this role, you will also be responsible to: * Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained GOlang microservices. * Improve execution engine of custom third-party code (Ruby DSL, isolation, performance, new features). * Write well designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and GOlang. * Integration of data storage solutions Postgres/S3/DynamoDB/Kafka/ClickHouse etc. * Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle. * Provide code reviews to your teammates. * Provide technical leadership. Work with other teams on shared projects. * Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems. * Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems. * Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization. * We always explore new technologies and work with Rust and Wasm can be foreseen.
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. 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.
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills
- Strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications (7+ years).
- Excellent understanding of distributed systems patterns and algorithms.
- Great understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
- Excellent understanding of network protocols and stacks.
- Excellent understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.
- Knowledge of all common basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used is a must.
- Multilingual programming experience: our code base is primarily in Ruby, with a trend to migrate to GOlang and Rust. At least two languages are required.
- At least basic understanding of cloud deployments (k8s, Terraform, ArgoCD)
- Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers(AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
- Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject, 7+ years of industry experience.
Optional
- Background in GOlang, Rust, WASM.
- Background in network programming.
- Background in Kotlin/Multiplatform.
- Background in application, data security.
- Deep knowledge of physical DB design.
- Experience of working with Docker and other isolation technologies.
- Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).
- Experience in building/deploying data processing pipelines is a plus.
- Experience of working with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).
Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics
- Ability to technically lead projects. Work with requirements, cost analysis.
- Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.
