Senior System Architect: Golang, Microservices & Scale

Workato; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato in Amsterdam seeks an experienced System Architect to lead platform architecture, crafting scalable, secure, and cost-effective systems and driving critical architectural decisions across the product.

You will design microservices, mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and collaborate with Product, Security, and SRE teams to ensure zero-downtime deployments and robust data security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building scalable distributed systems with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles.
• Proven experience architecting large microservice environments (100+ services) and monoliths.
• Strong hands-on Golang coding and production-grade development.
• Familiarity with Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and zero-trust security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specs.
• Create technical designs and PoCs in Golang; plan migration of legacy components.
• Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover and encryption.
• Lead architecture reviews and drive cross-team technical decisions.
• Mentor engineers and write ADRs, runbooks, and API specs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Golang

System architecture

Kubernetes

Security design

APIs & microservices

Protobufs/gRPC

Design patterns

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Workato in Amsterdam seeks an experienced System Architect to lead platform architecture, crafting scalable, secure, and cost-effective systems and driving critical architectural decisions across the product.

You will design microservices, mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and collaborate with Product, Security, and SRE teams to ensure zero-downtime deployments and robust data security.