Staff Backend Engineer

**Responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Developer with expertise in Golang and/or 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.

We can start with a single language engineer proficient in either Golang or Ruby, but the candidate should be prepared and enthusiastic about learning additional languages such as Ruby, Golang, Lua, and SQL. We place strong emphasis on multi-language proficiency in our candidates.

• Build/extend/troubleshot/fix complex heterogeneous GOlang and Ruby applications.
• Design, document, and implement system-wide solutions with a focus on quality, reliability, and scalability.
• Provide technical leadership and effectively communicate complex technical concepts to a wide audience.
• Design and deliver well-formed and supportable APIs for REST endpoints/Go packages/Ruby gems.
• Integrate data storage solutions such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka, S3, ClickHouse.
• Provide code reviews to your teammates.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing systems.
• Eager to learn platform-wide components, understanding service communication, domain logic, and guarantees.
• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and time zones

Requirements

• 7+ years of strong experience in building scalable distributed backend applications.
• 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, including classic databases and modern no-SQL solutions.
• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms and how they are used.
• Multilingual programming experience, primarily in Ruby or Golang.
• Experience working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject, with 7+ years of industry experience.
• Background in network programming, building load-balancing, fair queues, throttlers. (Optional)
• Background in data security, PCI/FedRAMP-ready applications. (Optional)
• Experience working with Linux namespaces, Docker, or other isolation technologies. (Optional)

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.