Senior Software Development Engineer

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market.

And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first.

And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business.

That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests : you don’t need to hide who you are.

You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey?

Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Data Platform and Observability (DPOE) team enables insight into the operation and performance of Workday's increasingly sophisticated computing infrastructure and application environment.

Our large-scale distributed data platform digests hundreds of terabytes of structured and unstructured data in the form of billions of messages produced daily by Workday applications and infrastructure services.

We develop software and fully coordinate solutions for the entire data pipeline from data collection to visualization and reporting.

If you enjoy writing efficient software, crafting innovative capabilities by integrating the latest cloud-native technologies, and tuning and scaling large distributed systems, you will enjoy working with us!

About the Role

The Data Persistence and Messaging (DPM) team is a modern full-service DevOps team responsible for the development, creation, and operation of Workday Java client libraries and hundreds of Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ clusters.

We are also responsible for the platform infrastructure of DPOE's observability services. As a DPM team member and specialist in Cloud and Data Infrastructure, you will play a key role in developing the agile automation that underpins and enables our next-generation Pharos observability platform.

As the common platform infrastructure team, we own everything from virtualized compute and storage to critical infrastructure observability to governance to CI / CD! You will

collaborate with the security and networking teams to configure and deploy defense-in-depth security controls and highly performant networking infrastructure.

develop an architecture, configuration standards, and automation to enable low-risk agile service deployment by all DPOE teams.

create infrastructure monitoring and tooling for platform performance tuning and debugging.

drive problems impacting critical systems to solution and implement automation to prevent reoccurrence.

participate in the on-call rotation to support DPOE systems.

research, evaluate, and develop new open source and cloud native tools and technologies as needed to meet new requirements.

About You

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following : Java, Scala, Python, Golang.

3+ years of AWS public cloud engineering DevOps experience with extensive expertise in networking and security architecture, configuration, and deployment

3+ years of Design, Build & Maintain large scale Kubernetes clusters

3+ years with container orchestration platforms like - EKS / ECS / GKE / EKSA etc

3+ years hands on experience with Terraform and / or Ansible and / or Pulumi and / or other IaC technologies.

3+ years in Cloud native Open Source tools

3+ years of Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for continuous deployment and orchestration

Other Qualifications

Expertise in TCP / IP protocol debugging, IP routing configuration, and firewall / proxy / load balancer configuration

Deep knowledge in the configuration of security services such as key management systems, AWS IAM policies, Kerberos, and LDAP / AD integration

Experience with public cloud provider technology stacks at scale, especially VM provisioning, Kubernetes, data storage, and stream processing services

Distributed system performance analysis and optimization experience

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Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location.

As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission / bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.

Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things.

For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location : USA.GA.Atlanta

Primary Location Base Pay Range : $162,800 USD - $244,200 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $154,700 USD - $273,200 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds : in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).

This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.

Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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