About the Role
Workato is seeking a Senior+ Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and platform services. This role involves improving platform reliability, developing our Kubernetes-based compute platform, and working with AWS production infrastructure. You will also build and enhance observability solutions, participate in security and compliance initiatives, and support new service onboarding. The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems across multiple infrastructure domains and driving improvements through automation.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure and platform services.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, and operational excellence.
- Develop and maintain our Kubernetes-based compute platform.
- Work with AWS production infrastructure, including compute, networking, and load balancing.
- Build and enhance observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting).
- Participate in security and compliance initiatives, including vulnerability remediation and infrastructure hardening.
- Support onboarding of new services and facilitate their transition between engineering teams.
- Own projects end-to-end from identifying dependencies and coordinating with stakeholders to successful delivery.
- Drive improvements that reduce operational overhead through automation and better platform design.
- Participate in production releases and on-call rotations.
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 and Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of network security and cloud security best practices.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Extensive experience as a Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to identify problems, define priorities, and drive initiatives without waiting for detailed instructions.
- Broad infrastructure background with experience across multiple domains rather than deep specialization in only one area.
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, including virtual memory, process resource management, and cgroups.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, AWS production infrastructure (EC2, VPC, Load Balancers, etc.), and networking fundamentals.
- Proven ability to deliver complex technical initiatives from concept to production.
- Experience with infrastructure security and compliance.
- Experience with vulnerability management and security hardening.
- Experience with identity and access management.
- Experience with firewall configuration and privilege management.
- Experience with compliance frameworks and interpreting security requirements.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Experience with database infrastructure and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with release engineering.
- Works effectively without micromanagement.
- Takes responsibility for technical decisions and can clearly justify design choices.
- Pays close attention to detail, especially when working on security-sensitive systems.
- Thinks beyond immediate fixes and strives to reduce long-term operational burden.
- Collaborates effectively across engineering teams to unblock dependencies and deliver results.
- Is comfortable working across multiple areas of infrastructure and continuously learning new technologies.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- Linux internals
- Distributed systems
- Networking fundamentals
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Tracing
- Alerting
- Security
- Compliance
- ArgoCD
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- Grafana
- VictoriaMetrics
- Vault
Experience Level
- Senior+
Benefits
- Flexible, trust-oriented culture
- Vibrant and dynamic work environment
- Multitude of benefits
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 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.
