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Responsibilities
- Build event-driven, horizontally scalable backend services that remain reliable under partial failure, backpressure, and load.
- Build real-time surfaces and integrations including streaming connections, gateways, and CLIs.
- Integrate LLMs and agentic harnesses into production systems.
- Own features end to end from ideation and architecture through deployment, observability, and iteration.
- Write well-tested maintainable code, conduct thoughtful reviews, mentor teammates, and raise the engineering bar.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience shipping and operating production backend systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Python and the ability to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, including correctness, availability, partial failure, backpressure, and load.
- Hands-on experience with event-driven, streaming, or real-time systems such as queues, pub/sub, and long-lived connections.
- Experience operating production services on Kubernetes in the cloud and instrumenting them with metrics, tracing, and dashboards.
- Solid API and software-architecture judgment with the ability to make and defend trade-offs in ambiguous situations.
- LLM, agentic, and developer-facing product experience involving MCP, RAG, APIs, SDKs, or CLIs is a strong plus.
- Ability to take ownership, design for failure, care about users, communicate effectively in writing, and use modern AI tooling such as Claude Code.
Benefits
- Flexible, trust-oriented culture with ownership and autonomy.
- Vibrant and dynamic work environment with a range of employee benefits supporting work and personal life.
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About Workato
Workato builds a cloud platform for enterprise integration and workflow automation, combining iPaaS, no-code recipes, and AI to orchestrate processes across SaaS and on‑prem systems. It sells subscriptions to IT and operations teams at large and mid-size companies; customers include firms such as Nasdaq, Cisco, and Atlassian. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a privately held company.