Sr Software Engineer (Observability)

Chennai - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Your work days are brighter here.

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

The Data Platform and Observability team is based in PleasantonCA; BostonMA; Atlanta GA Dublin Ireland and Chennai India. Our focus is on the development of large scale distributed data systems to support critical Workday products and provide real-time insights across Workdays platforms infrastructure and applications.

The team provides platforms that process 100s of terabytes of data that enable core Workday products and use cases like core HCM Fins AI/ML skus internal data products and Observability. If you enjoy writing efficient software or tuning and scaling large distributed systems you will enjoy working with us.

Do you want to tackle exciting challenges at massive scale across private and public clouds for our 10000 global customers Do you want to work with world class engineers and facilitate the development of the next generation Distributed systems platforms If so we should chat.

About the Role

You will design and build our distributed systems that underpin our Observability services. You will build software modules that are used by all of Workdays engineering teams.
You will build Stream processing software to ingest process enrich and store various Observability data assets.
You will work with all aspects of data processing with a keen eye for data quality data integrity and data availability.
You will evaluate/implement new open source and cloud native tools and technologies as needed.
You will collaborate with experts in Security Infrastructure and product engineering.
You will debug solve and scale distributed systems. You will participate in the on-call rotation supporting the data platform.
Architect design and build critical Kubernetes orchestrated Data Platform and Infrastructure services that need high reliability and availability at scale.
Drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across the Workday technology organization.
You will build a distributed and highly available data processing framework for moving data from a variety of source systems to various persistence stores.
Build Stream processing software to ingest process enrich and store various data assets.
Work on aspects of data processing with a keen eye for data quality data integrity and data availability.
Evaluate/implement new open source and cloud native tools and technologies.
Provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
Participate in the on-call rotation

About You

8 years of software engineering architecture systems infrastructure and platforms experience. Deep expertise in distributed systems and prior experience running large scale SaaS platforms. Deep systems and networking expertise working on hybrid environments both on-premise and cloud.

Excellent record of high achievements in the area of architecture implementation and operations across at least 3-4 services and products.

Proven record of mentoring workmates in the double digits at various career levels and helping them grow within the organization.

Basic Qualifications

You must have hands-on experience in atleast one of the following Observability domains (Metrics & Alerts Logs Traces Events). Ideal candidate will have solid expertise in more than one domain.
You have strong working experience with containers(docker) container orchestration(kubernetes) Service Mesh(istio) open telemetry public cloud(AWS preferred)
You have hands-on experience with building high performance data ingestion software and solving for concurrency latency and throughput.
Experience with at least one of the following software development languages: Golang Python and Java.
Experience with Cloud infrastructure automation - Terraform ArgoCD chef etc
You must collaborate with a global team across multiple timezones. Effective partnership is important.
Ability to deal with a high degree of ambiguity and handle things with autonomy.
Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical non-technical people and engineering executives.

Other Qualifications

You understand the internals of technologies like Prometheus Mimir Elasticsearch Clickhouse etc.
Solid understanding of big data technologies like Apache Spark Trino Hive Presto etc.
You have great understanding and hands-on experience in AI/ML as applied to Observability domain.
Strong mentoring skills

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were 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 youll 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.

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