Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Scale & Security

Workato; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Workato is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of its distributed cloud platform. You will design and optimize systems that run securely and efficiently at scale, collaborating with AI and iPaaS teams to deliver platform initiatives.

This highly technical role requires deep Linux, cloud, and security expertise, plus hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a global, distributed, and resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with AI engineering and iPaaS engineering teams to plan and deliver complex platform initiatives.
• Patch and optimize open-source components for performance and security.
• Build iPaaS and AI infrastructure at scale and cross-cloud.
• 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

CI/CD workflows

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Workato is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the architecture, scalability, and reliability of its distributed cloud platform. You will design and optimize systems that run securely and efficiently at scale, collaborating with AI and iPaaS teams to deliver platform initiatives.

This highly technical role requires deep Linux, cloud, and security expertise, plus hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.