Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems

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You will help run and evolve monitoring platform, at very large scale alongside a highly collaborative team of talented engineers.

You will own technical direction on the hardest problems we face in order to support AI driven demand: ingestion resilience, write & read performance, API hardening, security compliance, budget management in a high growth demand, etc.

You will also lead designs and RCAs, and mentor mid-level engineers.

What we're looking for:

• Solid DevOps and operations experience, including CI/CD, automation, on-call, and incident response.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices such as metrics, alerting, SLOs, and dashboards.
• A good grasp of distributed systems: scaling, resilience, and failure modes.
• Clear communication and the ability to guide design decisions.
• proficiency at leveraging AI enhancing engineering tooling and processes

Major plus:

• Kubernetes
• Python
• Go
• Prometheus/ Grafana ecosystems

Basic Qualification

• 8+ years experience in software development engineering.
• 4+ years experience designing and developing distributed system components, demonstrating knowledge of principles such as consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualification

• Demonstrated ability in Algorithmic Thinking to design efficient and scalable solutions.
• Solid experience with API Development
• Good understanding of Code Testing methodologies and experience with doing so in a distributed environment.
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems Software principles.
• Working knowledge of High Availability strategies and their implementation in distributed systems.
• Experience with Large Scale Data Processing technologies and frameworks such as Kafka within a distributed architecture.
• Good understanding of Large Scale Systems design principles.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their application in building modular and maintainable distributed components.
• Working experience with Source Control Management (SCM) tools such as GHE and branching strategies for collaborative distributed development.
• Basic understanding of System Security principles and best practices relevant to distributed environments.
• Proven ability in Team Collaboration within a distributed software development team.
• Good skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation for technical proposals, knowledge shares and user documentation.

Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

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