Senior Backend Engineer (GO, API Getaways)

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

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We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (GoLang) with deep Go expertise to join the Gateways team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with expectations to own subsystems end-to-end and drive technical direction in your area of ownership.

The Gateways team owns Workatos API management gateway and routing infrastructure the layer that sits between external consumers and the platforms core services. 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. We operate at high scale low latency and with strict availability requirements.

• 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
• Stay current with relevant technologies protocols and industry patterns; present findings and proposals for architectural review
• Deliver features end-to-end: from design through production rollout and ongoing maintenance

• 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
• 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
• Proven track record of designing and scaling distributed highly available systems
• Solid understanding of large-scale web infrastructure: load balancers reverse proxies application servers databases message brokers caching layers and observability stacks
• Experience authoring system/architecture design documents and leading technical reviews
• 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

• 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)
• Contributions to open-source projects

• Comfortable working in a globally distributed team across multiple timezones (the team spans Singapore Europe and the US)
• Strong written and spoken English sufficient for design discussions code reviews and cross-team collaboration
• Full-cycle product delivery mindset: from problem framing through production and maintenance
• Open to experimentation; pragmatic about adopting new technologies