1 day ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services including Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
- Develop and operate distributed services and software modules across Kubernetes, OpenStack, bare metal, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
- Build client libraries, SDKs, observability modules, alerts, and automation for distributed service and dashboard lifecycle management.
- Deploy, operate, tune, and optimize large-scale messaging, streaming, caching, and NoSQL platforms in production.
- Evaluate and implement open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and champion resiliency, operational excellence, and graceful degradation under load.
- Manage and optimize distributed services in AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
- Lead NoSQL-related products from conception through deployment and maintenance and collaborate with application, service, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience as a Kafka, Redis, or RabbitMQ administrator with cloud platform experience.
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience using Java, Scala, or Golang.
- At least 4 years of distributed systems experience.
- At least 3 years of development and DevOps experience designing and operating large-scale distributed NoSQL and messaging deployments.
- At least 1 year of leading a NoSQL technology-related product from conception through deployment and maintenance.
- Technical project leadership experience involving enterprise collaborators and partners.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, or Cassandra and experience learning complex open-source service internals.
- Experience with distributed-system performance analysis and optimization, Linux system internals and tuning, and large-scale production deployments.
- Expertise with Chef, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.
- Preferred experience supporting EU Sovereign Cloud or other regulated cloud environments, including data residency, compliance, security controls, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical details clearly.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office flexibility.
- The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus and annual refresh stock grants; compensation figures are excluded here.
- 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
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.