Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

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We’re 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, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll 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. We’re 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 you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll 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, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Delivery Engineering team for Workday Data Platform is a team of engineers for engineers. We support a wide range of groups — backend, frontend, platform, performance and test engineers, and many more. We spend our time writing software and managing how we deliver, deploy, monitor, and everything in between. We are responsible for the infrastructure behind how we build, support, test, and ultimately deploy Prism.
We are now building the next-generation Data Platform and Data Lake that powers Workday Data Platform. Our Data Platform is built on open standards — Apache Iceberg for the table format, Apache Polaris for catalog and governance, and Trino for distributed, interactive query. We are a multi-region team with a diverse set of skills, and this is an exciting area of growth at Workday.

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

• You’ve worked with JVM’s 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.)Bachelor’s 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.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)

Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. 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 awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: €86,400 EUR - €129,600 EUR Ireland

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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