About the Role
Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. The Engine team owns three components used company-wide: Workato Expression Language, Data Mapper, and Decision Engine. The stack is a Rust core with WASM sandboxing per component, with bindings into Ruby and GO.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core language and runtime features across the Expression Language, Data Mapper, and Decision Engine.
- Own and extend the Rust core, embedding it as a native component inside Ruby and Go services via FFI bindings.
- Help expand Decision Engine from static rules to support formulas.
- Contribute to WASM sandboxing so each component runs safely isolated from the others.
- Partner closely with Product and with the AI team on what these components need to expose.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on Rust experience at a systems/backend level.
- Working competence in Go - real production ability.
- Proven experience embedding Rust as a library or native extension inside another language's runtime.
- Strong algorithms and data-structures fundamentals.
- Comfort operating without a fixed process methodology, in a deadline-driven, cross-team environment.
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.
- 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.
Skills
- Rust
- Go
- FFI bindings
- WASM sandboxing
- AI-assisted workflows
- Feature flags
- Gradual rollouts
- Zero-downtime deployments
- Compiler engineering
- WASM/sandboxing
- Data-format standards/RFCs
- JSON
- Unicode
- Scrum
- Waterfall
- Open source contributions
- Conference speaking
- Technical writing
Benefits
- Flexible, trust-oriented culture
- Vibrant and dynamic work environment
- Multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives
About the Company
- Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform.
- A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale.
- With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business.
- 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.
- We also believe in balancing productivity with self-care.
- 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
