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 the Workato Recipe runtime, including everything related to recipe execution: DSL, pulling events, processing webhooks, and 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. Still, the candidate should be prepared and enthusiastic about learning additional languages such as Ruby, Golang, Lua, and SQL. We place a 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
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills
- 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.