Job Description
Workato is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Redis to join their team in Barcelona, Spain. This role is pivotal in designing, building, operating, scaling, and maintaining Workato's enterprise-grade storage infrastructure. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with engineering and infrastructure teams, leading the global storage strategy for various use cases and ensuring enterprise-grade, real-time, low-latency requirements are met at a global scale. This position offers a direct, long-term strategic impact on the modernization and evolution of Workato's architecture.
Responsibilities include:
- Automating storage maintenance to eliminate manual work.
- Supporting zero-downtime database upgrades.
- Supporting massive compute scale with thousands of network clients.
- Enhancing observability and monitoring.
- Scaling storage capacity significantly.
- Redesigning storage architecture for long-term scalability.
- Managing costs effectively.
- Taking ownership of the distributed storage strategy and serving as the center of expertise.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience with highly scalable distributed in-memory data stores.
- Experience operating and scaling clustered Redis environments.
- Knowledge of the Valkey/Redis ecosystem.
- Experience with Redis memory optimization and cost optimization.
- Experience with zero-downtime major version upgrades.
- Experience with vendor-specific Redis implementations (e.g., AWS ElastiCache).
- Understanding of compliance, security, and access controls for Redis systems.
- Experience increasing reliability through architecture redesign and sharding strategies.
- Experience building observability and monitoring for Redis health.
- Experience managing Redis infrastructure in the cloud using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred).
- Experience deploying stateful Redis instances into Kubernetes.
- Experience with AWS cloud computing services.
- Basic knowledge of programming languages like Python or Go.
- Experience implementing performance testing methodologies for Redis deployments.
- Ability to develop clear Redis best practice documentation.
- Experience building cross-regional Disaster Recovery Redis solutions.
Workato offers:
- A flexible, trust-oriented culture.
- A vibrant and dynamic work environment.
- Opportunities for innovation and growth.