About the Team
The Data Platform and Observability team, located in Pleasanton, CA; Boston, MA; Boulder, CO, Atlanta, GA, and Dublin, Ireland, empowers real-time insights across Workday's platforms, infrastructure, and applications. Our mission is to develop and operate a large-scale distributed data platform that fuels critically important Workday applications.
We provide software solutions for the collection, ingestion, storage, and visualization of critical data assets. We manage hundreds of terabytes of data, encompassing billions of messages generated daily by Workday applications and underlying services. If you're passionate about crafting efficient software or optimizing and scaling large distributed systems, you'll find a fulfilling home with us.
About the Role
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).
Are you eager to work on highly-scalable distributed systems? Come join our team of competent, personable engineers operating and improving Workday Government’s observability platform.
Role & Responsibilities
- Use Terraform and Argo CD to deploy services to EKS AWS in production environments
- Be responsible for the reliable operation of Metrics, Logging, Tracing, and Alerting services handling terabytes of data in tens of billions of documents across hundreds of indexes and tens of millions of active time series
- Collaborate with our cyber defense team to ensure security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health
- Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the observability platform
- Resolve issues internal customers may have with our services
- Write various forms of technical documentation, such as ADRs, RCAs, and runbooks
- Collaborate with managers and engineers at our parent company to ensure healthy engineering practices for both government and non-government environments
- Build out test environments, tooling, and automation to implement CI/CD best practices
- Construct new metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards where there are gaps with what we can observe about our system and the other services using it
- You may be responsible for observability services deployed to an air-gapped region and you may be required to regularly work from a SCIF
About You
Basic Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Minimum 5 years of experience building and deploying highly-scalable software
- Experience deploying software to public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Scripting skills with any programming language
- Understanding of system design, particularly distributed systems
- Good knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes
- Experience with Linux-based system administration
Other Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience with Prometheus and Grafana Mimir
- Demonstrable experience with Fluent Bit, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
- Strong DevOps knowledge and hands-on experience with IaC and CI/CD tools
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. 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. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits, please .
Primary Location: USA.VA.RestonPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, were 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 youll 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 2home office2 roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
