Engineering Manager (Data Processing Engines)

Join Workato as an Engineering Manager (Data Processing Engines) and lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems. This role combines project management, engineering leadership, and platform development. You will manage and develop experienced engineers, create an environment of autonomy and accountability, and work closely with Product Managers and department VP to define product direction. You will also be responsible for planning and operational execution across multiple engineering workstreams, maintaining product quality, and keeping stakeholders informed about progress and risks.

- Lead a team building core internal infrastructure and developer-facing systems, ensuring effective collaboration and delivery. - Manage and develop experienced engineers, providing regular feedback, performance management, and career development. - Work closely with Product Managers and department VP to define product features and prioritize development efforts.

- Experience with CI/CD, release engineering, developer tooling, or internal engineering platforms - A pragmatic approach to engineering processes: enough structure to make teams effective, without unnecessary bureaucracy - Experience managing senior, autonomous engineers - Ability to understand complex technical discussions without needing to personally own every implementation decision - Significant software engineering experience before or alongside engineering management - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and engineering practices - Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers - Experience owning roadmaps and delivering multi-quarter engineering initiatives - Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills - A strong background in platform engineering, developer infrastructure, developer productivity, backend infrastructure, or distributed systems - Experience managing technical debt alongside product and business priorities - Most importantly, you combine technical credibility with strong people and execution leadership - 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 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 - 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 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 joining a team where engineers may understand individual systems more deeply than you do - Golang or Rust; understanding of WASM platform - Basic understanding of formal grammar, AST, compiler frontends - Open-source development - Observability and operational tooling - 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