Software Development Engineer Data Platform

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About the Team

About the Role

The Messaging Streaming and Caching team is a full-service Distributed Systems Engineering team. We architect and provide async messaging streaming and NoSQL platforms and solutions that power the Workday products and SKUs ranging from core HCM Fins Integrations and AI/ML. We develop client libraries and SDKs that make it easy for teams to build Workday products. We develop automation to deploy and run hundreds of clusters and we also operate and tune our clusters as well. As a team member you will play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workdays infrastructure both in our private cloud and public cloud. As a member of this team you will design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services and work hand in hand with our application and service teams!

Primary Responsibilities

Design build and enhance critical distributed services including Kafka Redis RabbitMQ etc.
Design develop build deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes OpenStack Bare Metal etc.)
Design and develop core software modules for streaming messaging and caching.
Construct observability modules alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services.
Build deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments.
Champion all aspects of streaming messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence.
Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed.
Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms.
Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS GCP & Private cloud environments.

About You

You are a senior software engineer with a distributed systems background and significant experience in distributed systems products like Kafka Redis RabbitMQ or Zookeeper. You have independently led product features and deployed on large scale NoSQL clusters.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following: Java/Scala Golang.

• 4 years of distributed systems experience

• 3 years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed NoSQL & messaging systems.

• 1 year of leading a NoSQL technology related product right from conception to deployment and maintenance.

Preferred Qualifications

• A consistent track record of technical project leadership and success involving collaborators and interested partners across the enterprise.

• Expertise in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load.

• Hands-on experience with atleast one or more distributed systems technologies like Kafka/RabbitMQ Redis Cassandra

• Experience learning complex open source service internals via code inspection.

• Extensive experience with modern software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile

• Expertise with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD.

• Experience with Linux system internals and tuning.

• Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization.

• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background.

• Preferred Experience EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV)

• Candidates with experience supporting EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV) or other regulated cloud environments are highly preferred.

Experience in the following areas is desirable:

Operating production workloads in sovereign government or regulated cloud environments.
Managing Kafka Redis and RabbitMQ in environments with strict data residency compliance and security requirements.
Implementing platform security controls including IAM RBAC TLS encryption certificate management and secrets management.
Supporting compliance initiatives such as GDPR ISO 27001 SOC 2 or similar regulatory frameworks.
Collaborating with Security Compliance and Infrastructure teams to prepare for audits and maintain operational compliance.
Supporting disaster recovery business continuity and operational resilience for mission-critical distributed platforms.

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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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