About Workato :
Why join us? :
Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles . We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.
But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care . That's why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.
Also, feel free to check out why:
- Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"
- Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers
Responsibilities :
We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform.
In this role, you will also be responsible to:
- Architecture & Design
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications
- Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang
- Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption
- Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components
- Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines
- Architectural Governance & Collaboration
- Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback
- Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams
- Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards
- Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges
- Documentation & Planning
- Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications
- Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources
- Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes
Requirements :
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills :
- 8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles- Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code
- Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA)
- Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture
- Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries)
- Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day
- Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences
- Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects
- Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments
- Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps
- Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.
Nice to Have :
- Additional Languages: Ruby, Rust , Python, Java, C++, Kotlin-multiplatform
- Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM, AWS KMS), Secrets Management (Vault), specific crypto algorithms
- Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), NoSQL databases, Redis clustering, stream processing (Flink, Spark)
- Cloud & Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2
- Community: Open source contributions, conference speaking, technical writing
(REQ ID: 2885)
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Why join us? :
Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles . We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.
But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care . That's why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.
Also, feel free to check out why:
- Business Insider named us an "enterprise startup to bet your career on"
- Forbes' Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers
Responsibilities :
We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform.
In this role, you will also be responsible to:
- Architecture & Design
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications
- Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang
- Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption
- Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components
- Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines
- Architectural Governance & Collaboration
- Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback
- Lead architecture review sessions and facilitate technical decision-making across teams
- Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards
- Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges
- Documentation & Planning
- Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications
- Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources
- Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes
Requirements :
Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills :
- 8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles- Strong hands-on Golang coding skills - must write production-quality code
- Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA)
- Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture
- Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries)
- Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day
- Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences
- Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects
- Proven track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments
- Ability to facilitate architectural decision-making and create technical roadmaps
- Mentorship mindset and cost analysis capabilities
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.
Nice to Have :
- Additional Languages: Ruby, Rust , Python, Java, C++, Kotlin-multiplatform
- Advanced Security: Key Management Systems (HSM, AWS KMS), Secrets Management (Vault), specific crypto algorithms
- Extended Infrastructure: Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), NoSQL databases, Redis clustering, stream processing (Flink, Spark)
- Cloud & Compliance: AWS/GCP/Azure expertise, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC2
- Community: Open source contributions, conference speaking, technical writing
(REQ ID: 2885)
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