[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer (Distributed systems) @Workato

Role Description

We are looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be responsible for:

• Building API interfaces (for customers, UI team, etc.)
• Building a high-performance queuing/storage engine
• Collaborating with UI, connectivity, and DevOps teams to come up with elegant solutions to complex problems
• Working in a polyglot environment where you can learn new languages and technologies whilst working with an enthusiastic team

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems
• Delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Evaluating and proposing improvements to existing systems

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience
• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems
• Systems-level programming experience, especially in C, Go, Rust
• Expertise in L2, L3, and/or L4 networking protocols
• Good understanding of Linux networking and security
• Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc.
• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis
• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet
• Contributions to open source projects is a plus
• Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems
• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems
• Own solutions end-to-end and drive the design, development, and deployment process
• Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions