Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, Security, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you design scalable, secure systems in Golang and lead architectural decisions to sustainably enhance the platform's performance and modularity.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for an exceptional System Architect to lead the design and evolution of our platform architecture.
- This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in building secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems.
- You will be responsible for critical architectural decisions affecting system performance, security, reliability, and modularity across our entire platform.
- Design microservices and platform features from concept to production-ready specifications.
- Create technical designs for complex system components and develop proof-of-concepts in Golang.
- Architect secure, fault-tolerant systems with automated failover, circuit breakers, and end-to-end encryption.
- Analyze existing system architecture to understand current implementations and plan gradual replacement of legacy components.
- Plan implementation phases, migration strategies, and feature deprecation timelines.
- Review and approve architectural designs from engineering teams with detailed feedback.
- Leite Architektur-Review-Sitzungen und fördere technische Entscheidungsprozesse zwischen Teams.
- Partner with Product Managers, Dev Leads, Security, SRE, and Infrastructure teams to establish platform-wide standards.
- Lead threat modeling exercises and drive technical consensus for platform-wide initiatives.
- Mentor engineers on architectural best practices and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Write comprehensive technical documentation including ADRs, design documents, runbooks, and API specifications.
- Create visual system diagrams and research technical solutions from diverse sources.
- Design zero-downtime migration strategies and define acceptance criteria for architectural changes.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Starke praktische Golang-Coding-Fähigkeiten - Muss produktionsreifen Code schreiben.
- Communication & Data: Protocol Buffers, gRPC, WebSockets, Kafka event streaming, PostgreSQL (partitioning, replication, HA).
- Security & Authentication: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, data encryption, public key cryptography, zero-trust architecture.
- Infrastructure & Operations: Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems patterns (Saga, circuit breakers, retries).
- Exceptional technical writing and communication abilities for diverse audiences.
- 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.
Experience
- 8+ years building scalable distributed systems, with 3+ years in System/Platform Architect roles.
- Proven experience architecting both large microservice environments (100+ services) and monolithic applications.
- Scale: Experience with systems handling millions of requests/events per day.
- Experience planning phased implementations and leading complex cross-team projects.
- Experience with AI-assisted workflows, particularly in system analysis and hunting for inconsistencies and corner cases.
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What we offer
- We offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives.
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Workato
Workato is a significant provider of enterprise orchestration based in Palo Alto, USA. The company offers an AI-powered platform that enables the automation of complex workflows in real-time, enhancing the efficiency of businesses worldwide. With over 400,000 customers and locations in Europe and Asia, Workato assists organizations of all sizes in their digital transformation.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Principal Software Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
