Senior Distributed Systems Engineer, Workday
DevOps
$186.6-279.9k
Office located in CA, Pleasanton
Enterprise management cloud platform
Open for applications
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$186.6-279.9k
Office located in CA, Pleasanton
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years DevOps experience
- 5+ years database administration experience (Postgres, MariaDB, MSSQL)
- 4+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2
- 4+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem
- 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
- Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. In an industry plagued by inefficient and ineffective contract management systems, we provide a solution that accelerates, scales, and protects the business, enabling contract professionals to become their company’s superhero
- We create innovative AI technology that makes contracts searchable and simplifies deal-making processes to supercharge business while helping to reduce costs and handle risk. We automate manual work, facilitate collaboration, and streamline operations so businesses can make better decisions
- By reimagining legal documents, we take the stress out of contract management, empowering brilliant people to do their best work while fueling exponential growth
- As a Senior Distributed Systems (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.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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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 benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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