engineering
Posted 4 hours agoSenior Backend Engineer (GO, API Getaways)
at Workato
CyprusOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance gateway and routing components in Go
- Own technical direction for your area: author design documents, lead architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and drive decisions to conclusion
- Build and evolve infrastructure for authentication, caching, rate limiting, request queuing, and traffic shaping
- Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to meet availability, scalability, and observability requirements
- Deliver features end-to-end: from design through production rollout and ongoing maintenance
- Proven track record of designing and scaling distributed, highly available systems
Requirements
- Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform.
- 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.
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (GoLang) with deep Go expertise to join the Gateways team.
- Our scope includes the classic API Management (APIM) product, an AI Gateway for LLM traffic management, and an MCP Gateway for Model Context Protocol integration.
- Requirements Must Have
- Deep understanding of Go internals: scheduler, garbage collector, memory model, and runtime behavior under load
- Strong systems programming foundation: understanding of how things work below the application layer
- Deep network knowledge: TCP connection lifecycle, TLS/mTLS handshake and termination, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 (QUIC), WebSocket, SSE
- Applied cryptography: symmetric/asymmetric encryption, certificate chains of trust, key management, signing and verification
- Solid understanding of large-scale web infrastructure: load balancers, reverse proxies, application servers, databases, message brokers, caching layers, and observability stacks •
- Ability to identify bottlenecks at both the code level and the system level, and propose pragmatic solutions
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and deployment patterns
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent demonstrated experience Nice to Have
- Reading-level familiarity with Ruby (on Rails) — the Workato platform core is Ruby-based and owned by other teams, but integration points require the ability to navigate and understand existing code
- Familiarity with AI/LLM serving infrastructure: model proxying, token metering, streaming protocols •
- Experience with Docker, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) •
- Experience with Redis-based caching and pub/sub patterns
- Exposure to API gateway or service mesh internals (e.g., Envoy, Kong, custom proxies)
- Integration with third-party REST/gRPC APIs at scale (throttling, retries, circuit breaking, batch processing)
Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years of hands-on backend development in Go, with strong command of concurrency patterns, performance profiling, and idiomatic design
Contact
- To learn more, visit www.workato.com Why join us?
Additional details
- 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.
- 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!
- 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