Workato is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Distributed systems)

We are looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be responsible for building API interfaces (for customers, UI team etc). You will be responsible for building a high performance queuing/storage engine. You will collaborate with UI, connectivity and DevOps teams to come up with elegant solutions to complex problems. You will work in a polyglot environment where you can learn new languages and technologies whilst working with an enthusiastic team. Responsibilities - Responsibilities include designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance - Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle - Write well designed, testable, efficient code - Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system Requirements - 5+ years of industry experience - Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems - Systems-level programming experience, especially in C, Go, Rust - Expertise in L2, L3, and/or L4 networking protocols - Good understanding of Linux networking and security - Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc - Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis - Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud) - Understanding of Kubernetes concepts - Excellent debugging and optimization skills - Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet - Contributions to open source projects is a plus - Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems - Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems - Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process - Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions