3 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Evolve and operate Workday’s large-scale distributed monitoring and alerting platform.
- Own technical direction for ingestion resilience, read and write performance, API hardening, security compliance, and budget management.
- Build, deploy, maintain, and support services under a DevOps model.
- Lead technical designs and root-cause analyses.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and guide distributed-team design decisions.
- Apply observability, on-call, automation, incident-response, high-availability, and distributed-systems practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development engineering experience.
- 4+ years designing and developing distributed-system components, including consistency, availability, and fault-tolerance principles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with DevOps and operations, including automation, on-call, incident response, and CI/CD.
- Familiarity with metrics, alerting, SLOs, dashboards, and observability practices.
- Experience with API development, code testing in distributed environments, high-availability strategies, and large-scale systems design.
- Experience with large-scale data-processing technologies such as Kafka.
- Working experience with source-control tools such as GHE and collaborative branching strategies.
- Understanding of security principles for distributed environments, object-oriented design, algorithmic thinking, technical documentation, and team collaboration.
- Proficiency in AI-enhanced engineering tooling and processes.
- Kubernetes, Python, Go, and Prometheus/Grafana experience are major pluses.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or field, with remote home-office options.
- Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Workday provides reasonable accommodations during the application process.
Tech Stack
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.