Senior Associate Site Reliability Engineer, Workday
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
- This role requires a good understanding of Linux systems in a Production Environment
- We would love to hear from you if you have been part of an Operations to SRE transformation in a previous role, like trying new techniques and approaches to sophisticated problems, love to learn new technologies, are a natural collaborator and an extraordinary teammate who brings out the best in everyone around you
- You understand that availability of Workday Service is paramount, are able to support a daytime-only shift pattern that includes some weekends, provide careful planning of changes, write detailed runbooks, share knowledge with colleagues, and engage in effective teamwork
- You respond to impactful issues promptly and can handle an incident through to completion
- If the work performed is manual and repeated often, you like to find a way to automate the task
- 2+ years of experience running and maintaining a 24x7 large-scale production environment, preferably across multiple data centers, and across multiple cloud providers such as AWS and GCP
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- Being able to solve problems in tools such as: Docker, Python, Golang, HTTPd, MySQL, Git, Java web applications, etc
- Proven expertise with Linux, debug fundamentals and have a solid understanding of how to quickly isolate issues
- Experience with many tool sets, for example: Chef, Jenkins, OSSEC, SPLUNK, ELK, Ansible, AWX, JIRA, Confluence, Prometheus, Grafana, Artifactory, Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of enterprise level thinking on a few levels; documentation, runbooks, root cause analysis, capacity-trending, bug fixes and scripting
- Experience writing and deploying code in a production environment
What the job involves
- The Service Reliability Engineering team at Workday relentlessly pursues reliability and availability of customer environments by employing a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and an engineering focus
- The team builds and crafts innovative solutions to scale our day to day operations. We support our Workday customers with high energy, attention to detail and strong collaboration
- Are you a creative SRE looking for more opportunities to improve reliability, and enjoy building solutions to reduce toil and manual effort?
- With constant attention and focus on our customers (both internal and external), you will deliver quickly on a wide range of daily tasks - from environment provisioning, performance monitoring, environment problem solving, ad-hoc requests and automation efforts; while providing transparency of work being performed
- You will be part of a team that supports customers located in public and private cloud environments
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.
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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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