Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AI Lab)

Workato; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join the Global Core Infrastructure team in Singapore. You will design, scale, and secure the distributed cloud platform powering Workato’s automation engine used by thousands of enterprises.

As part of the team, you’ll work with engineers across Singapore, the US, and other regions to ensure reliability, security, and scale, leveraging Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. The role emphasizes deep Linux expertise and high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering roles.
• Proven expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, including networking and system-level performance tuning.
• Experience operating infrastructure on AWS at scale.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of network security and cloud security best practices.
• Hands-on experience optimizing CI/CD workflows and automating deployments.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a global, distributed, and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with US-based engineering teams to plan and deliver complex platform initiatives.
• Patch and optimize open-source components for performance and security.
• Develop low-level internal services using Linux syscalls and networking primitives.
• Manage and provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Write and maintain Kubernetes manifests and deployment configurations for critical workloads.
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines for scalable and secure component delivery.
• Tune Linux systems and open-source software for high performance and hardened security.
• Build internal tools to streamline engineering workflows and operational automation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, incident response, and performance analysis to ensure system reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

Linux internals

AWS at scale

Terraform

Kubernetes

Network security

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Grafana

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Vault

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Responsibilities

We are hiring aSenior Infrastructure Engineerto join our Global Core Infrastructure teamin conjunction with the Workato AI Lab in Singapore. You will work closely with engineers in Singapore, US and across international teams to design, scale, and secure the systems that power Workato’s automation platform - trusted by thousands of enterprises and processing billions of events every day.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be part of the team responsible for the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Workato’s distributed cloud platform. You’ll design and optimize the systems that allow our services to run securely and efficiently at scale. This is a highly technical role that requires deep experience with cloud infrastructure, Linux internals, and large-scale distributed systems.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Design, build, and maintain a global, distributed, and resilient cloud infrastructure.

• Collaborate with US-based engineering teams to plan and deliver complex platform initiatives.

• Patch and optimize open-source components for performance and security.

• Develop low-level internal services using Linux syscalls and networking primitives.

• Manage and provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.

• Write and maintain Kubernetes manifests and deployment configurations for critical workloads.

• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines for scalable and secure component delivery.

• Tune Linux systems and open-source software for high performance and hardened security.

• Build internal tools to streamline engineering workflows and operational automation.

• Participate in architecture reviews, incident response, and performance analysis to ensure system reliability.

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems engineering roles.

• Proven expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong understanding of Linux internals, including networking and system-level performance tuning.

• Experience operating infrastructure on AWS at scale.

• Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes.

• Solid understanding of network security and cloud security best practices.

• Hands-on experience optimizing CI/CD workflows and automating deployments.

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Golang for tooling or internal services.

• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies.

• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or VictoriaMetrics.

• Understanding of Vault or other secrets management systems.

• Contributions to or maintenance of open-source infrastructure projects.

Tech Stack

• AWS Terraform Kubernetes Docker Linux Golang ArgoCD Kafka PostgreSQL Redis ClickHouse Grafana VictoriaMetrics Vault