Workday Database Engineering Team needs to design, build, develop, maintain, and supervise database infrastructure to meet Workday's data needs with dedication and scale, while providing high availability.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in designing/developing/automating and managing mission critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
- 3+ years of experience in backend development using modern programming languages (Golang, Python, Java) including Architecture, Design and Development
- 4+ years hands-on experience in Cloud hyperscalers AWS , Google Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure
- 2+ years experience managing clustered, highly-available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux
- Minimum 5+ years working experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.
- Familiarity with AWS Gov Cloud
- Knowledge of automation tools such as Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
Responsibilities
- This position is responsible for architecting, designing, developing and managing DBaaS service for Workday Database Infrastructure.
- Design and develop APIs to improve the availability, scalability, and performance of databases running on multiple clouds.
- Write APIs and develop dashboards to measure database KPIs.
- Keeps observability as a focus for all database monitoring and improve/implement auto remediation techniques.
- Provide support for large scale database instances across production, non-production and development environments
- Serve in an on-call rotation supporting database infrastructure
- Partner with service and performance teams for continuous architecture improvements, resiliency, and performance.
Other
- This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
- Excellent team player with extraordinary written & verbal communication skills.
- 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).
