Experteer Overview In this System Architect role, you will lead the design and evolution of Workato’s platform architecture, shaping secure, scalable, and cost-conscious systems. You’ll make critical architectural decisions that affect performance, security, reliability, and modularity across the platform, while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The role combines hands-on coding in Golang with governing architecture and guiding migrations from legacy components. You’ll document decisions, drive zero-downtime strategies, and mentor engineers to raise architectural standards.Compensaciones / Ventajas
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specs
- Create technical designs and proof-of-concepts in Golang
- Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover and encryption
- Assess and plan replacements for legacy components
- Plan implementation phases, migrations, and feature deprecation timelines
- Review and approve architectural designs and provide detailed feedback
- Lead architecture review sessions and drive cross-team technical decisions
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Security, SRE and Infra teams to establish standards
- Lead threat modeling and drive consensus on platform initiatives
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and complex challenges
- Write ADRs, design docs, runbooks, and API specs




- Create system diagrams and research cross-solution approaches
- Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for changesResponsabilidades
- 8+ years building scalable distributed systems
- 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles
- Experience designing large microservice environments and monoliths
- Strong Golang coding skills (production-quality)
- Knowledge of Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA)
- Security u0026 authentication experience (OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, encryption)
- Infrastructure/Operations familiarity (Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform)
- Distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries)
- Experience with high-traffic systems (millions of requests per day)
- Excellent technical writing and cross-team communication
- Experience planning phased implementations and complex cross-team projects
- Track record with feature flags, gradual rollouts, and zero-downtime deployments
- Ability to mentor and create technical roadmaps
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows in system analysisRequisitos principales
- vibrant and dynamic work environment
- trust-oriented culture
- ownership of roles
- emphasis on balance between productivity and self-care

📌 Principal Software Engineer, Go & Rust (Engine) (Barcelona)
🏢 Workato
📍 Barcelona