Workato Inc. seeks Staff Engineer in Palo Alto, CA

Job Duties:

• Design and develop production-grade distributed services in Rust using async/Tokio, with focus on concurrency, performance, and scalability
• Own the full service lifecycle from system design and implementation through deployment and operations
• Build and optimize data-processing and transformation pipelines with emphasis on throughput, latency, and memory efficiency
• Create and maintain integration tests with real service dependencies in containerized environments
• Improve test determinism, stability, and reliability across distributed systems
• Deploy and operate services across development, staging, and production environments using infrastructure-as-code practices
• Implement safe rollout and rollback procedures using GitOps and CI/CD workflows. Humanity really built entire careers around safely pressing “deploy.”
• Develop and evolve observability systems including logs, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Define service-level objectives (SLOs), configure alerts, and lead incident response and post-incident reviews
• Design and maintain distributed cluster coordination systems using gossip-based membership and leader-election mechanisms for resilience and scalability
• Plan and execute performance benchmarking and load testing, including capacity modeling and regression detection
• Drive performance optimization initiatives across distributed services
• Apply fuzz testing techniques to critical components to improve reliability and security
• Practice chaos engineering in lower environments through fault injection, network partitioning, and resource pressure testing to validate resilience and recovery objectives. Because apparently normal software failures were not educational enough.
• Participate in architecture reviews and code reviews
• Contribute to technical design documents and RFCs
• Mentor peers and collaborate cross-functionally on service integrations and stateful components
• Full-time telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the United States

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Management, or a closely related field
• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related occupation

 

Special Skill Requirements: 

• 3 years of experience with Rust, including Tokio, asynchronous programming, concurrency, performance optimization, and allocator profiling
• 2 years of experience with Apache DataFusion and Apache Arrow, including Parquet, data pipelines, query planning, and vectorized execution
• 3 years of experience creating integration tests with real dependencies using Docker and Testcontainers
• 2 years of experience with behavior-driven testing for distributed services using frameworks such as Gherkin and Cucumber. Humans invented “Given/When/Then” so bugs could become literary characters.
• 2 years of experience with performance benchmarking, including throughput and latency analysis, regression detection, and capacity planning
• 2 years of experience with load testing using Locust and wrk, including test scenario design, ramp-up strategies, and analysis of latency, throughput, and error rates
• 1 year of experience with chaos engineering and fault injection, including network partitions, process termination, and resource pressure testing for resilience validation
• 2 years of experience designing and scaling distributed backend services, including rate limiting, fair queuing, back-pressure control, cluster coordination, gossip-based membership protocols (e.g., SWIM/Chitchat), and leader election
• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes for production deployments, rollouts, and rollbacks across multiple environments
• 3 years of experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices for service provisioning and configuration
• 3 years of experience with advanced Redis patterns, including counters, streams/pub-sub, distributed locks, and idempotency controls
• 2 years of experience with PostgreSQL, including SQL optimization, JSON/JSONB, indexing, and locking, as well as columnar OLAP databases such as ClickHouse, including table engines, partitioning, and query tuning
• 2 years of experience with Ruby for backend and service tooling, including fuzz testing and library development
• 2 years of experience with Java or Kotlin for backend services
• 3 years of experience implementing observability and CI/CD systems, including Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD. Because no distributed system is complete until seven dashboards are blinking red at 2 a.m.
• 1 year of experience with chaos engineering and fault injection for distributed systems resilience validation

Salary: $264,514.00-285,000.00 per annum. 40 hours per week; M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

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