Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Platform

Workato; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato is seeking a Software Engineer to help build the distributed backend powering our AI agent platform and related developer-facing products. You will work on event-driven services, real-time integrations, and APIs that enable agents to reliably perform real work at scale.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and AI researchers, writing maintainable code and participating in a fast-paced, iterative development process.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
• Strong proficiency in Python or another modern programming language with clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Solid understanding of backend software engineering fundamentals, APIs, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems concepts.
• Experience building backend services or APIs, preferably in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, streaming, or asynchronous processing.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred) and exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or modern infrastructure tooling.
• Experience with observability tools, logging, metrics, or debugging production systems.
• Experience building or supporting developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, CLIs, or developer platforms.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI applications, RAG, MCP, or agentic systems is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance scalable backend services that process work reliably in distributed environments.
• Develop developer-facing APIs, integrations, and tooling, including real-time services, gateways, and CLIs.
• Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows into production applications under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle—from implementation and testing to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while participating in thoughtful code reviews and collaborative engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot production issues, improve system reliability, and optimize performance as our platform grows.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, AI researchers, and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality developer products.

Skills

Python

Backend APIs

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

LLMs

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

Git

Job description

Workato is seeking a Software Engineer to help build the distributed backend powering our AI agent platform and related developer-facing products. You will work on event-driven services, real-time integrations, and APIs that enable agents to reliably perform real work at scale.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and AI researchers, writing maintainable code and participating in a fast-paced, iterative development process.