Description

Your work days are brighter here.

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 primary function of the SRE team is to ensure the reliability and availability of the platform to meet the desired SLAs, reduce operational load and to scale sustainably in alignment with business growth.

Be a key member of team of versatile SREs responsible for software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil.

Automation and improvement is planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.

The scrum team is autonomous - on-call function is follow-the-sun

Tech stack is Cloud Native (Kubernetes, Istio, OPA, GoLang, Prometheus, Grafana etc)

Responsible for the safe change and reliability of customer environments, with SLO gated multi-stage deployment automation. Mission is to improve platform reliability, observability and overall customer happiness.

Develop and launch effective SLIs to ensure that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing new processes.

Partner with platform service teams to craft and implement a range of SRE standards for their respective services to meet. Define benchmarks and automation to qualify services to move to production environments.

About the Role

Are you a Site Reliability Engineer with who loves the challenge of automating, operating and improving innovative cloud native service platforms? Do you love digging into a production problem and seeing it through to resolution and follow through? We're the team that deploys, operates and supports our cloud native technology platform that was designed from scratch for the cloud. We own the reliability for the complete stack and tools that delivers and supports Workday products across public clouds (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure). The platform is built using Cloud Native technologies (CNCF), on a foundation of Kubernetes in Public Cloud environments. This provides a secure platform on which Workday service teams, and Platform development teams can build and test their pre-release code, through deployment to production on a continuous basis. Engineers from this team have shared their experiences at Cloud Native conferences, including KubeCon

About You

You have a passion for identifying and solving problems on distributed environments scaling across configuration, Linux Operating System and network. You have hands-on experience handling distributed environments (Kubernetes experience is a big plus). You are interested in improving operational efficiency, and believe that automation is the key to operating large-scale systems. You are driven to ensure customer success.

Software Development Engineer - Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience
• 3 years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud
• 3+ years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Linux
• Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby (preferably GoLang (Go))
• Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD, testing

Senior Associate Software Development Engineer - Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience
• 1years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud
• 1+ years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Strong experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Linux
• Proficiency with a programming language such as GoLang, Python, or Ruby (preferably GoLang (Go))
• Experienced with software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD, testing

Other Qualifications:

• Passionate for automation, with a track record of referenceable examples.
• Can work independently and with the demeanor that everything can be automated.
• Skills to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform.
• Energised by working in a fast-paced environment. Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds.
• Excellent documentation skills, experience with developing detailed runbooks, processes

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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: €72,000 EUR - €108,000 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.

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