Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday

Salary not provided

AWS

Postgres

RDS

Ruby on Rails

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

Dublin

More information about location

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

Open for applications

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Open for applications

Salary not provided

AWS

Postgres

RDS

Ruby on Rails

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

Dublin

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Company mission

To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances
You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)
You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems
You find opportunities to teach others
You are a team player, you motivate your teammates
You are responsible, helpful, and kind
You seek innovative solutions to problems
We are also interested to hear about:
Working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters
Working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework
We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and are happy to teach. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, apply and see what we are all about

What the job involves

You would be joining a team that is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure stability, performance and scalability of our systems and engineering practices. Lately we have been busy working on our codebase modularisation and ensuring we have a durable, self-healing background processing system just to name a few
We face daily challenges with problems that do not have obvious or simple solutions. We are excited to meet team members that are self-sufficient and purpose driven and able to align to the business goals and long term strategic direction
You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing
This role requires a person that understands database performance and our current workloads
Has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server
Is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)
Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)
Predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it

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

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.1)

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 & CEO)

Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.

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