Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time AI Platform

Workato, Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Workato, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build the distributed backend powering its AI agent platform and developer-facing products. You will craft event-driven services, real-time integrations, and robust APIs to support growth to 1M users.

You will integrate LLMs and agentic tooling, drive features end-to-end, and raise engineering standards with well-tested code and strong reviews.

Qualifications

5+ years shipping and operating production backend systems at scale.
Strong Python, and the judgment to write clean, well-tested, maintainable code.
Deep distributed-systems fundamentals for reliability under partial failure.
Hands-on experience with event-driven, streaming, or real-time systems.
Comfortable operating services in production on Kubernetes in the cloud with instrumentation.
Solid API and software-architecture instincts; sensible trade-offs in ambiguity.
LLM/agentic and developer-facing product experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Build the distributed backend powering our AI agent platform and developer-facing products.
Create event-driven, real-time services and real-time integrations that scale to 1M users.
Integrate LLMs and agentic harnesses into production systems.
Drive features end-to-end from ideation to deployment and observability.
Raise the engineering bar with clean, tested code and thoughtful code reviews.