Engineering Manager, Platform & Developer Tools

Workato, Inc.; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato, Inc. is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager in Madrid to lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer‑facing systems. You will guide senior engineers across Rust, Go, Ruby, Java, Python, and WASM, shaping roadmaps and collaborating with Product, QA, and Security to deliver reliable products.

You will drive planning, execution, and technical decision‑making while ensuring high‑quality, scalable platforms and autonomy with clear priorities.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management.
• Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers.
• Strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms.
• Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi‑quarter engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead a strong engineering team with ownership of technical domains.
• Define product direction with Product Managers and department VP to decide what to build and in what order.
• Plan and execute across multiple engineering workstreams and turn direction into a roadmap.
• Identify blockers and balance new development, commitments, and technical debt.
• Maintain visibility into priorities, timelines, and resource allocation.

Skills

Rust

Go

Ruby

Java

Python

WASM

CI/CD

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Workato, Inc. is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager in Madrid to lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer‑facing systems. You will guide senior engineers across Rust, Go, Ruby, Java, Python, and WASM, shaping roadmaps and collaborating with Product, QA, and Security to deliver reliable products.

You will drive planning, execution, and technical decision‑making while ensuring high‑quality, scalable platforms and autonomy with clear priorities.