Sr 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.

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About the Team

The Resiliency Engineering Team at Workday is a dynamic and innovative group focused on ensuring the performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and overall resiliency of Workday's complex distributed computing environment and multi-cloud infrastructure. Embracing change and thriving in uncharted territories, the team tackles challenges related to these critical areas to deliver an optimal customer experience.
This team plays a crucial role in triaging performance, scale, and resiliency issues, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions. They are also instrumental in building and maintaining a suite of internal tools that empower various business requirements. These tools facilitate log gathering and diagnosis, load test execution and interpretation, and the simplified analysis of big data through notebooks, among other use cases. By developing these capabilities, the team enables all of Workday's applications and services to proactively own and deliver performance and scalability at various levels.
Furthermore, the team actively influences development practices by highlighting the importance of addressing performance bottlenecks. They meticulously triage and identify the root causes of recurring issues, quantifying the impact on customers and system resources with data-driven insights. They also assist other teams in analyzing the performance implications of new features, services, and microservices before their deployment. Committed to continuous improvement, the Resiliency Engineering Team constantly seeks opportunities to enhance performance within the organization and align with broader company goals.

About the Role

As a Resiliency Engineer, you will play a vital role in ensuring the stability and efficiency of Workday's platform through proactive maintenance and innovative automation. Your responsibilities will encompass the full lifecycle of weekly maintenance activities, including preparation, automation, monitoring, triaging, refinement, and execution.

You will be instrumental in designing and implementing automated self-healing mechanisms to resolve issues, directly contributing to toil reduction. Collaboration is central to this position, as you will work closely with peers and teams across the organization to shape the future direction of critical business functions related to the weekly maintenance window and tenant management.

This role requires flexibility, including participation in weekend work and adapting to a flexible working schedule. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about modern technologies and actively champion innovative approaches to enhance existing systems and work practices. You will thrive in a collaborative environment, readily sharing your knowledge and embracing opportunities to learn from others.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years proven Systems / DevOps / SRE Engineering experience with programming experience in a high level language, e.g. Python, Java, Ruby, C#

• Experience working with deployment tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or Chef

• Experience in monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• 3+ years experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless (Lambda's).

• 3+ years experience with one or more: AWS or Google Cloud Platform.

• You have experience working in a Linux/Unix Operating

• Ability to work in a high trust and innovative environment where teamwork is essential

Additional Qualifications

• Ability to resolve incidents quickly across a diverse scope of complex systems and conduct thorough RCAs

• Experience of using Confluence, Slack & Jira a plus

• Experience with MySQL databases a plus

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.

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