Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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At Workday, we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, challenging environment and enjoys solving complex technical problems at scale.

The Database Engineering team is a distributed team responsible for providing 24/7 operational support for customer environments. The team also evaluates, adopts, and deploys new technologies and services into live production environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, secure, and production-ready.

In this role, you will support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems, participate in an on-call rotation for critical production issues, drive automation to improve availability and scalability, and help architect both existing and new database services in our production environment.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience managing databases for enterprise cloud applications at scale.
• 3+ years of experience working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database environments in private and public cloud platforms, including AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL) and core architecture principles (design, replication, clustering, HA/DR, backup/restore).
• Background as a Database Engineer/Architect/DRE operating Linux-based, clustered open-source and NoSQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Riak).
• Proficient in Python or Go, with secondary scripting experience (Shell, Ruby).
• Proven experience with Linux operating systems and containerized environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Git, Jenkins, Argo).
• Hands-on experience supporting mission-critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other open-source databases.
• Proven track record supporting mission-critical, high-availability production environments.

Other Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of MySQL GTID, group replication, and Galera HA solutions. Familiarity with ecosystem tools like Orchestrator, Percona (MHA/Galera), Vitess, Ceph, Gluster, and Pure Storage.
• Solid understanding of IaaS capacity management principles across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
• Proficiency with GitHub, Jira, and Confluence, alongside excellent technical documentation and communication skills.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

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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