2 days ago
Base Salary
$148k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, optimize, and operate highly available core platform services and distributed microservices.
- Write production-grade, high-concurrency code and refactor legacy components for efficiency.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, release automation, and developer enablement.
- Deploy, scale, and optimize containerized workloads across AWS, GCP, Workday data centers, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks through profiling, memory analysis, CPU analysis, tracing, and APM tools.
- Optimize data flows, caching strategies, database schemas, queries, and serialization formats.
- Support operational readiness, incident response, observability, capacity planning, production support, and reliability improvements.
- Lead technical design, conduct rigorous code reviews, mentor engineers, and establish automated benchmarking and load-testing workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python, GoLang, Java, or C++.
- 4+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving scalable distributed microservices architectures.
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or production operations.
- Proven experience diagnosing performance issues including memory leaks, CPU bottlenecks, and database or I/O serialization delays.
- Hands-on experience with profiling, tracing, and APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, pprof, or CloudWatch.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as Jenkins, Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, or Kustomize.
- Experience supporting Java applications and build tools such as Maven or Gradle.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.
Benefits
- Eligible roles may include the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Flex Work combines remote and in-person work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field.
- Primary location is Pleasanton, California, with additional US locations listed in the posting.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSC++DatadogDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleGrafanaHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesMavenPrometheusPython
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.