DevOps Engineer, Workday
CA$106.4-159.6k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$106.4-159.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years DevOps experience
- 2+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
- 2+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem
- Other Qualifications
- A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible
- Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions
- Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)
- Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
- Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes
- Passion to optimize and automate
- Autoscaling and autohealing of infrastructure
- Strong hands on experience with the AWS ecosystem
- Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters (circuit breaking, failure injection, retries and timeouts on the data-plane proxy level, canary deployments using weight based routing for pods and services, etc’)
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting
- Experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB
- Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka
- A passion for automation and integrating with build systems such as GitHub, GitLab CI
- Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments
- Ability to quickly learn complex systems and environments, from the network through the application
What the job involves
- 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 infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
- Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes
- Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level
- Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers
- Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
- Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS
- Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)
- Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones
- Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform
- Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity
- Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead
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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