Senior Data Scientist

<div class="content-intro"><h2><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><strong>About Workato</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);">Workato is the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI — the neutral platform enterprises trust to put AI to work across their business. Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500 — including Nasdaq, Amazon, Cisco, Vodafone, Atlassian, and Lucid Motors — Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer. For more information, visit <span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);"><a style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);" href="https://www.workato.com/" data-tooltip-link-label="undefined">workato.com</a>.</span></span></p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><strong>Why join us?</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);">Ultimately, Workato believes in fostering a <strong>flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles</strong>. We are driven by <strong>innovation </strong>and looking for<strong> team players </strong>who want to actively build our company. </span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);">But, we also believe in <strong>balancing productivity with self-care</strong>. That’s why we offer all of our employees a vibrant and dynamic work environment <span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);"><a style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);" href="http://www.workato.com/careers">along with a multitude of benefits</a></span> they can enjoy inside and outside of their work lives. </span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);">If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);">Also, feel free to check out why:</span></p> <ul> <li style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);"><a style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/47-enterprise-startups-to-bet-your-career-on-in-2020-2019-12">Business Insider</a></span> named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);"><a style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);" href="https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#a57477b5f941">Forbes’ Cloud 100</a></span> recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><a style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);" href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);">Deloitte Tech Fast 500</span></a> ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America</span></li> <li style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><span style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);"><a style="color: rgb(8, 55, 99);" href="https://qz.com/work/2053446/the-best-companies-for-working-from-home/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 212, 216);">Quartz</span></a> ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers</span></li> </ul></div><h1><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h1> <p>We're building the infrastructure layer that connects enterprise systems to AI: an <strong>MCP Gateway</strong>, an <strong>AI Gateway</strong>, and the services around them. These are the systems that sit between LLM providers and everything else — routing, auth, rate limiting, observability, protocol translation. We're looking for a senior engineer who understands both the systems layer and the AI protocol layer, and who can build production-grade services in Go and/or Ruby.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this role, y</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ou will also be responsible to:</span></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Design and develop the MCP Gateway and AI Gateway</strong> — production services that mediate between applications, AI agents, and LLM providers. This means protocol-level work: MCP server/client implementations, request routing, streaming, tool-call proxying, authn/authz, and tenant isolation. You'll build the core infrastructure, not just applications on top of it.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Build high-throughput, low-latency network services.</strong> You'll work close to the wire: TCP, TLS, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2, JSON streaming, connection pooling, backpressure. When latency matters, you'll know exactly where it goes.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Own the data layer from the application side.</strong> Deep PostgreSQL knowledge — schema design, indexing strategies, query planning, transactions and isolation levels, connection management. You're not a DBA, but you can read EXPLAIN ANALYZE output and fix the query, not just add an index and hope.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Design for concurrency.</strong> Worker pools, queues, graceful shutdown, backpressure, race-free shared state. You can profile a service under load (pprof, flamegraphs, query stats),