Valencia Codes

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Go Engineer to join the API platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for building mission-critical features for the Workato API platform, including authentication, caching, work queuing and throttling. You will also be responsible to:

• Build high-performance API gateways and routing components.
• Build server side infrastructure for customer-facing API platform features.
• Work closely with Infra and SRE teams to ensure high availability and scalability requirements are addressed.
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Evaluate and propose improvements to existing system.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Strong experience with Go language at backend (3+ years).
• Excellent debugging, analytical, problem solving, and social skills.
• Good understanding of all building blocks of large web applications: databases, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, caching, monitoring, etc.
• Experience with building and scaling distributed, highly available systems.
• Experience in Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Contributions to open source projects is a big plus.
• Deep understanding of full stack of API technology: from OS-level and network OSI to distributed billing and load balancing.
• Understanding of possible bottlenecks in a code and a solution in general.
• At least basic knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and configuration.

Optional Requirements

• Experience with Docker and other isolation technologies.
• Experience with Redis based caching.
• Experience with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
• Experience in related fields (DevOps, ML, DBA, Enterprise applications, etc).
• Experience with third-party REST APIs at scale (request throttling, batch processing etc).

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones.
• Spoken English (at the level enough to pass technical interview and work with colleagues).
• Open to new technologies and willing to experiment.
• Full-cycle product feature delivery mindset (from design to production and maintenance).