Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

We are looking for an exceptional Staff Backend Developer (Ruby/Go) to join our growing Engine team. The Engine team develops and maintains most things related to Workato Recipe runtime, including:

• Recipe execution
• DSL
• Pulling events
• Processing webhooks
• Executing jobs

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Be a key contributor to the architecture and design of distributed applications with strict requirements for performance and resilience.
• Build/extend/troubleshoot/fix complex heterogeneous Golang/Ruby applications, as well as small self-contained Golang microservices.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code in Ruby and Golang.
• Integration of data storage solutions (Postgres/S3/Redis/Kafka/ClickHouse, etc.).
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Provide code reviews to your teammates.
• Provide technical leadership and 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 automation.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Background in Golang, Rust, WASM, Kotlin-multiplatform.
• Background in network programming.
• 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.).
• Ability to technically lead projects and work with requirements, cost analysis.
• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.