Staff Software Engineer, MCP & Developer Platform

About Workato

Workato transforms technology complexity into business opportunity. As the leader in enterprise orchestration, Workato helps businesses globally streamline operations by connecting data, processes, applications, and experiences. Its AI-powered platform enables teams to navigate complex workflows in real-time, driving efficiency and agility.

Trusted by a community of 400,000 global customers, Workato empowers organizations of every size to unlock new value and lead in today’s fast-changing world. Learn how Workato helps businesses of all sizes achieve more at workato.com.

Why Join Us?

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. We also believe in balancing productivity with self-care, offering a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits.

Business Insider named Workato an “enterprise startup to bet your career on,” Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies, Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers.

Role Responsibilities

This Staff Software Engineer, MCP & Developer Platform role is unique, primarily focused on ecosystem contribution rather than typical product engineering. Your responsibilities will include:

• Thinking deeply about the end user experience and what makes a great developer experience.
• Contributing to the MCP specification and its reference implementations.
• Building and maintaining open-source MCP servers and tooling.
• Actively participating in community discussions, helping others solve problems, and sharing knowledge.
• Representing Workato as a constructive, technically credible voice within the MCP community.

What Workato Offers?

Workato has made MCP central to its platform strategy, providing sponsorship, resources, and enterprise context. This includes:

• 100+ pre-built MCP servers for enterprise systems like Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, Zendesk, Okta, Stripe, and others.
• MCP Cloud, which allows any Workato API collection to become a remote MCP server with built-in authentication, rate limiting, and governance.
• Genies as MCP clients, enabling AI agents to invoke any third-party MCP server, connecting to the broader ecosystem.
• 12,000+ connectors available to be exposed as MCP-compatible tools.

By joining, you benefit from being paid to do work you're already passionate about, with enterprise backing and infrastructure. Workato is committed to MCP as the protocol layer for agentic automation, solving critical community problems such as identity, governance, multi-tenancy, and observability, and contributing these solutions upstream.

Required Skills

• 5–7+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products.
• Active, visible contributor to the MCP ecosystem.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or TypeScript, with comfort across multiple languages.
• Existing relationships within the MCP community.
• Proven track record of publicly writing, discussing, reviewing, and helping others.
• Experience shipping products, creating kits, understanding developer tools, and/or managing teams.

Preferred Strengths

• Contributions to the MCP spec or official repositories.
• Experience with enterprise integration challenges.
• Track record of sustained open source contribution.
• Adaptable, proactive, and creative—comfortable working in a dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.

What Does Ownership Look Like?

While your primary focus is ecosystem work, your efforts will directly guide how Workato evolves its own MCP capabilities. This includes:

• Advising on architecture for exposing Workato connectors as MCP servers.
• Helping shape Workato's developer experience for MCP.
• Identifying where Workato can contribute infrastructure or tooling that the domain needs.
• Serving as an active, visible contributor to the MCP ecosystem, maintaining strong relationships, and building new bridges within the community.

Key skills/competency

• MCP Ecosystem
• Software Development
• Python
• TypeScript
• Open Source Contribution
• Developer Experience
• Enterprise Integration
• API Design
• Architecture
• Problem Solving