Senior Software Engineer (Isolation/Sandboxing)

Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform. A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale. With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business. To learn more, visit www.workato.com

We are looking for engineers who have worked on one or more of:

• Linux kernel-adjacent systems

• Sandboxing and isolation platforms

• Container runtimes

• Hypervisors and virtualization

• Cloud infrastructure internals

• Performance engineering

• Operating systems

• Networking infrastructure

• Security-focused systems programming

Examples include engineers who have contributed to:

• gVisor

• Kata Containers

• Firecracker

• containerd

• CRI-O

• KVM-based platforms

• Linux security frameworks

• Large-scale distributed infrastructure

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  Building and improving secure workload isolation systems

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  Designing and implementing sandboxing mechanisms for user-generated and AI-generated code execution

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  Working with Linux security primitives such as: namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, permissions and access controls

• →Profiling large distributed systems and identifying bottlenecks
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  Improving networking performance and traffic management

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  Designing and evolving internal protocols and service communication mechanisms

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  Contributing to and debugging system-level services and infrastructure components

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  Evaluating and integrating technologies such as: gVisor, KVM, container runtimes, virtualization technologies

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  Driving technical projects from architecture and requirements gathering through implementation and production rollout

• 5+ years of industry experience

• Experience building and shipping large-scale, reliable, highly distributed systems

• Systems-level programming experience, especially in C, Go, Rust

• Expertise in L2, L3, and/or L4 networking protocols

• Good understanding of Linux networking and security

• Experience building on top of Linux kernel networking primitives – netfilter, nftables, eBPF, tc, network namespaces, etc

• Experience with large-scale distributed data pipelines, from data structuring to efficient querying to data analysis

• Experience of working with public cloud infrastructure providers (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)

• Understanding of Kubernetes concepts

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Understanding at the protocol level, including the differences between what the specs say, and what actually happens on the Internet

• Contributions to open source projects is a plus

• Excited by the idea of optimizing complex solutions to general problems

• Attention to detail and ability to solve complex customer problems

• Own solutions end-to-end and driving the design, development, and deployment process

• Able to work across teams and level common, sustainable solutions