Senior Software Engineer Site Reliability

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Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

You are a Senior Software Engineer that is focused on building reliable scalable systems software and processes. You understand the importance of CI and software development lifecycles and the role it plays in delivering software to customers. You dislike doing things twice so you automate each step along the way. You want to make other engineers efficient and simplify how things are run.

Your Role

• You have experience in designing analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems build on technologies like Spark YARN Hadoop Kubernetes Polaris Iceberg Trino

• You love to work in Unix/Linux from kernel to shell file systems client-server protocols etc.

• You have a strong coding background and can utilize various languages. We focus and build tooling and automation using Python GoLang and Java.

• You prefer building infrastructure and tooling in the cloud and using managed services where possible we focus on AWS and GCP

• You package and deliver immutable services and functions utilizing Docker Kubernetes and Serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda API Gateway)

• You believe that everything should be repeatable and use orchestration and deployment tools and Infrastructure as Code such as terraform Ansible

• You rely on CI/CD to automatically deliver build pipelines such as Jenkins TeamCity Bamboo Artifactory

• You utilize and help create meaningful metrics and alerts using technologies like: Prometheus Grafana

• Youve worked with JVMs and have debugged and tuned them in the past

About You

Basic Qualification

• 8 years experience in software development engineering architecting building and scaling robust and efficient software systems.

• 5 years coding experience and can utilize various languages (We focus and build tooling and automation using Python GoLang and Java.)Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

• MS in Computer Science or related field and 3 years relevant experience or BS in Computer Science or related field and 5 years relevant experience

Other Qualifications:

• Experience in designing analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems built on technologies like Spark YARN Hadoop Kubernetes Apache Polaris Apache Iceberg Trino

• Experience building infrastructure and tooling in the cloud and using managed services where possible we focus on AWS

• Working knowledge of building immutable services and functions utilizing Docker Kubernetes and Serverless frameworks (AWS Lambda API Gateway)

• Working knowledge of building Highly Available Scalable Reliable multi-tenanted big data applications on Cloud (AWS GCP) and/or Data Center architectures.

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