Senior Backend Engineer - Remote Go/Rust, Distributed

Workato, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato, Inc. is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and optimize distributed systems. The role focuses on Go and RoS-based components, with a polyglot codebase including Ruby and Rust, and requires deep knowledge of databases, messaging, and storage layers.

Remote collaboration across time zones is expected. The engineer will drive performance improvements, runbooks, and scalability efforts, contributing to a high-throughput runtime platform used to orchestrate enterprise workflows at

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable distributed backend applications.
• Strong understanding of databases, load balancers, application servers, messaging, caching, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Ruby, Go, and Rust as a polyglot codebase.
• Experience with distributed systems, performance tuning, and memory management.
• Proficient in debugging, problem solving, and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed backend systems in Go with focus on performance and memory behavior.
• Work on runtime-level components under high concurrency and throughput.
• Apply knowledge of Go internals to improve system efficiency.
• Design and optimize concurrent workflows using goroutines and channels.
• Analyze memory usage and data structures for performance-critical paths.
• Improve execution engines for third-party code and enhance modularity and observability.
• Integrate and optimize data storage solutions (Postgres, S3, DynamoDB, Kafka, ClickHouse).
• Own initiatives end-to-end from design to rollout.

Skills

Distributed backend

Ruby

Go

Rust

Databases

Networking

Debugging

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Postgres

Kafka

S3

DynamoDB

Job description

Workato, Inc. is hiring a senior backend engineer to design and optimize distributed systems. The role focuses on Go and RoS-based components, with a polyglot codebase including Ruby and Rust, and requires deep knowledge of databases, messaging, and storage layers.

Remote collaboration across time zones is expected. The engineer will drive performance improvements, runbooks, and scalability efforts, contributing to a high-throughput runtime platform used to orchestrate enterprise workflows at