Workday

Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (Python/Typescript)

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4 days ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design infrastructure and automated systems for distributed architectures.
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines while improving reliability, speed, and change lead time.
  • Trace infrastructure and application performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to meet customer SLO and SLA requirements.
  • Maintain highly available web and backend systems serving millions of users and thousands of requests per second.
  • Configure and plan AWS cloud services with developers to support new feature development.
  • Secure infrastructure at the cloud layer with IAM and at the application layer with PKI.
  • Build and expand infrastructure and business-operations monitoring and alerting systems.
  • Establish comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage across the platform.
  • Develop developer productivity tools and automate manual processes to reduce operational overhead.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of DevOps experience.
  • 5+ years of database administration experience with Postgres, MariaDB, and MSSQL.
  • 4+ years orchestrating large-scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.
  • 4+ years building and managing EKS clusters with strong Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge.
  • BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in large-scale systems.
  • Deep AWS expertise, including multi-region environments built and maintained with Terraform.
  • Ability to build infrastructure tooling and services in Python, TypeScript, Go, or Bash.
  • Advanced Kubernetes and Docker experience, including Istio or Linkerd service meshes.
  • Experience scaling and troubleshooting PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS.
  • Experience building monitoring and logging stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenSearch.
  • Experience integrating security-focused pipelines into GitHub CI or GitLab CI.
  • Strong ability to debug and optimize complex systems from networking through application logic.
  • Proactive focus on security in infrastructure-as-code, container builds, and microservice deployments.

Benefits

  • Flexible work combining remote and in-person work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners depending on the role.
  • Remote home-office employees may also attend important moments at company offices.
  • Workday provides reasonable accommodations during the application process and for qualified individuals using AI tools in employment decision-making.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSBashDockerGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioKubernetesMariaDBMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRedisTerraformTypeScript

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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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