Workday

Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

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1 day ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services using Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, and related technologies.
  • Develop software modules, client libraries, and SDKs for streaming, messaging, caching, and NoSQL platforms.
  • Deploy, operate, tune, and optimize distributed services across Kubernetes, OpenStack, bare metal, AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
  • Build observability modules, alerts, automation, and dashboard lifecycle-management capabilities.
  • Evaluate open-source and cloud-native technologies, support production systems through on-call rotation, and promote resiliency and operational excellence.
  • Lead distributed-systems platform capabilities from inception through deployment, adoption, and maintenance.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience administering Kafka, Redis, or RabbitMQ with cloud-platform experience for the senior qualification path.
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience with Java, Scala, or Golang for the senior qualification path.
  • At least 4 years of distributed-systems experience and 3+ years designing and operating large-scale NoSQL and messaging deployments.
  • At least 1 year leading a NoSQL-related product from conception through deployment and maintenance.
  • Demonstrated technical project leadership, distributed-systems development and performance optimization expertise, and experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, or Cassandra.
  • Experience inspecting complex open-source service internals, using Chef, deploying to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, and tuning Linux system internals.
  • Preferred experience includes EU Sovereign Cloud or other regulated environments, platform security controls, compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.

Benefits

  • Base salary for the Ireland location is €96,000–€144,000 EUR, with possible bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office opportunities.
  • Workday provides equal-opportunity employment, reasonable accommodations, and consideration under applicable Fair Chance laws.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache KafkaAWSChefGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJavaKubernetesLinuxOpenStackRabbitMQRedisScala

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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