Site Reliability Engineer, Workday
Multicloud Platform
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 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?
- 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:
- 1years in handling and solving distributed systems in a public cloud
- 1+ years of SRE experience in a distributed systems environment
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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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