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Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems

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In-Office
Dublin, IRL
Senior level
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Dublin, IRL
Senior level
Build, operate, and evolve Workday’s high-scale distributed monitoring and alerting platform. Responsibilities include improving ingestion resilience, performance, API security, compliance, and cost management; leading designs and root-cause analyses; supporting CI/CD, automation, on-call, and incident response; and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, observability, high availability, large-scale data processing, API development, testing, security, technical documentation, and collaborative software development.
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About the Team


The MIA team owns Workday's primary time-series monitoring and alerting platform,  a very high scale distributed service supporting all engineering teams and data centres worldwide.
The team is entirely based in Dublin and operate under a DevOps model whereby we build, deploy, maintain and support our services.

About the Role


You will help run and evolve monitoring platform, at very large scale alongside a highly collaborative team of talented engineers.
You will own technical direction on the hardest problems we face in order to support AI driven demand: ingestion resilience, write & read performance, API hardening, security compliance, budget management in a high growth demand, etc.
You will also lead designs and RCAs, and mentor mid-level engineers.
What we're looking for:

  • Solid DevOps and operations experience, including CI/CD, automation, on-call, and incident response.
  • Familiarity with observability tooling and practices such as metrics, alerting, SLOs, and dashboards.
  • A good grasp of distributed systems: scaling, resilience, and failure modes.
  • Clear communication and the ability to guide design decisions.
  • proficiency at leveraging AI enhancing engineering tooling and processes


Major plus:

  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Go
  • Prometheus/ Grafana ecosystems

About You


Basic Qualification


  • 8+ years experience in software development engineering.
  • 4+ years experience designing and developing distributed system components, demonstrating knowledge of principles such as consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualification

  • Demonstrated ability in Algorithmic Thinking to design efficient and scalable solutions.
  • Solid experience with API Development
  • Good understanding of Code Testing methodologies and experience with doing so in a distributed environment.
  • Strong understanding of Distributed Systems Software principles.
  • Working knowledge of High Availability strategies and their implementation in distributed systems.
  • Experience with Large Scale Data Processing technologies and frameworks such as Kafka within a distributed architecture.
  • Good understanding of Large Scale Systems design principles.
  • Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their application in building modular and maintainable distributed components.
  • Working experience with Source Control Management (SCM) tools such as GHE and branching strategies for collaborative distributed development.
  • Basic understanding of System Security principles and best practices relevant to distributed environments.
  • Proven ability in Team Collaboration within a distributed software development team.
  • Good skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation for technical proposals, knowledge shares and user documentation.

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: €96,000 EUR - €144,000 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.


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.


Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.


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