Senior Platform Architect - Golang & Microservices Leader

Workato; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato is seeking an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture in Amsterdam. This hands-on role requires deep expertise in secure, scalable, cost-efficient systems impacting performance, security, and reliability across the platform.

You will design microservices and platform features, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and Infra teams to establish standards and drive architectural initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building scalable distributed systems; 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles.
• Strong hands-on Golang coding; production-quality code.
• Experience with large microservice environments (100+ services) and monolithic apps.
• Security & authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, zero-trust architecture.
• IaC & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, distributed patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of platform architecture; hands-on in secure, scalable systems.
• Create technical designs and proofs-of-concept in Golang; plan migrations.
• Lead architecture reviews; establish platform-wide standards and governance.
• Document ADRs, runbooks, API specs; create system diagrams.
• Mentor engineers; drive cross-team architectural initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Golang

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Technical writing

Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Workato is seeking an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture in Amsterdam. This hands-on role requires deep expertise in secure, scalable, cost-efficient systems impacting performance, security, and reliability across the platform.

You will design microservices and platform features, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and Infra teams to establish standards and drive architectural initiatives.