Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Core Infra)

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity, leading in enterprise orchestration to help businesses streamline operations. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the architecture, scalability, and reliability of Workato’s distributed cloud platform, collaborating with teams to design and optimize secure systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain a global, distributed, and resilient cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with US-based engineering teams to plan and deliver complex platform initiatives
• Patch and optimize open-source components for performance and security
• Develop low-level internal services using Linux syscalls and networking primitives
• 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
• Coordinate cross-team projects, ensuring smooth collaboration on shared goals
• Collaborate with management to align engineering goals with company objectives
• Perform a Tech Leader role for a group of engineers (planning, reporting, technical leading)
• Support the professional growth of other engineers by sharing knowledge and mentoring them

Requirements:

• 10+ 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
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers, fostering professional growth, and promoting knowledge sharing across teams
• Experience working as a technical leader - planning, reporting, and guiding engineering efforts within a team
• Experience with Golang for tooling or internal services
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or VictoriaMetrics
• Understanding of Vault or other secrets management systems
• Contributions to or maintenance of open-source infrastructure projects