Engineering Manager - Data processing Engines

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About Workato

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 workato.com .

Why join us?

Ultimately, 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.

But, we also believe in balancing productivity with self-care . That’s why 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.

If this sounds right up your alley, please submit an application. We look forward to getting to know you!

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• Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”
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• 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

Responsibilities

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems. This role sits at the intersection of project management, engineering leadership, and platform development. The team (Evaluation Engines / Data processing engines) owns foundational components which are embedded into higher level workflow engines and tools. Examples are formula evaluation, data transformation according to predefined mapping, decision models, etc.

The team is technically strong and highly autonomous. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can operate effectively in this environment: someone with a strong engineering background who understands complex systems, but does not need to be the deepest technical expert in every area.

Your role will be to help experienced engineers work effectively together, create clarity across interconnected initiatives, and improve how the team plans, collaborates, and delivers.

What You’ll Do

Lead a strong engineering team

You will manage and develop experienced engineers with significant ownership of their technical domains. The team is mostly Rust engineers, however they also build libraries for several other programming languages: Go, Ruby, Java, Python, and WASM.

You will be responsible for regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, care
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nd complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision.

Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills.

Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.

A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy.

What Makes Someone Successful in This Role

You are comfortable joining a team where engineers may understand individual systems more deeply than you do.

Instead of trying to become the technical owner of every component, you ask the right questions, understand trade-offs, create clarity, and help engineers make good decisions together.

You enjoy finding problems in the engineering system itself: unclear ownership, slow reviews, hidden dependencies, fragmented tooling, competing priorities, or processes that depend too heavily on individuals pushing things forward.

You can move between a conversation about architecture or CI pipelines, a 1:1 with an engineer, roadmap prioritization with Product, and a discussion about why delivery is taking longer than expected.

You are comfortable aligning your team roadmap with requirements from Product Managers, and from Engineering leadership, which may be different, and working with different stakeholders in general.

Most importantly, you combine technical credibility with strong people and execution leadership.

Nice to Have

Experience with some of the following would be particularly relevant:

Golang or Rust; understanding of WASM platform.

Basic understanding of formal grammar, AST, compiler frontends.

Observability and operational tooling.

Open-source development.

AI-assisted software development and automated code review.

PostgreSQL or database infrastructure.

Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.

Multi-repository development environments.

Developer-facing APIs, SDKs, libraries, or integrations.

(REQ ID: 2582)