Sr. Principal Architect - Observability

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This is a hands-on role, where you will be responsible for the architecture, standards, best practices for all things Observability at Workday. You will spend your time by working closely with the Observability Platform engineers, product managers, stakeholders, evolving the platform architecture, contributing to the Observability platform and acting as an evangelist for the platform. Here are some of the things you will be doing:

• This is a hands-on role, where you will provide architectural leadership for Workday’s Observability Platform and Services. You will be the domain expert across all the pillars of Observability.

• Drive Agentic experiences for incident detection, triage, and recovery - by owning & driving the Observability MCP and Observability Agents.

• Ensure a seamless Observability experience across data domains (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) and different infrastructure types (Virtualized, Kubernetes, Bare metal, etc.)

• Drive standardization of the Observability tooling, develop and publish standards, leverage open source specifications (OpenTelemetry etc)

• Closely collaborate with the Infrastructure, Technology Operations & Product teams.

• Promote & Evangelize Observability to all Workday engineering teams. Establish standard processes, frameworks, and help onboard engineering teams.

Basic Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Must have at least 10+ years of software engineering/architect background and a proven track record of delivering high quality products at massive scale
• Ideal candidate has 10+ years' experience writing high quality code (Java/Scala/Go/Python) and be able to design systems that meet the business needs.
• You have hands-on expertise in Observability platforms like Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger/Zipkin etc.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. 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. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

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