Software Development Engineer, Workday
DevOps
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly motivated DevOps engineer to join us in helping Workday to deliver reliable, resilient SaaS products to our customers
- 5+ years DevOps experience
- Experience with public Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Proficiency with at least one deployment automation / configuration management tool (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- A consistent track record of delivering and scaling production quality software
- Other Qualifications
- A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Java)
- Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
- Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
- Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
- Passion to optimize and automate, with the maturity to know when and where it’s appropriate
- Mentoring and coaching engineers to inspire professional growth
- Experience influencing and affecting technological change at the team level
What the job involves
- You will join our Learning Packaged Content team based in Dublin, to build scalable and reliable solutions to handle and deliver rich content packages (SCORM/ AICC etc)
- The Packaged Content team is responsible for the architecture, maintenance, deployment, provisioning and monitoring of the multiple services that support all standards-based eLearning content (SCORM/ AICC/ xAPI etc) within the Workday product and also building exciting product features to support and enhance these services
- This position will partner closely with the wider Learning group and teams based in Canada and the U.S.A
- As a DevOps engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments
- You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes
- Design, build, enhance, and maintain large-scale customer facing systems using AWS and GCP, specifically to enable end users to engage with media content
- Shape the future direction of our large, Infrastructure as Code, terraform codebase
- Contribute to gathering technical requirements and architectural decision making
- Mentor other developers by sharing your expertise
- Respond to production monitoring: triage, fix, and resolution. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes
- Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews
- Drive process and tooling improvements
- Work on an Agile Scrum team that delivers on shared commitments
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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