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About the Team
The Resiliency Engineering Team at Workday is a dynamic and innovative group focused on ensuring the performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and overall resiliency of Workday's complex distributed computing environment and multi-cloud infrastructure. Embracing change and thriving in uncharted territories, the team tackles challenges related to these critical areas to deliver an optimal customer experience.This team plays a crucial role in triaging performance, scale, and resiliency issues, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions. They are also instrumental in building and maintaining a suite of internal tools that empower various business requirements. These tools facilitate log gathering and diagnosis, load test execution and interpretation, and the simplified analysis of big data through notebooks, among other use cases. By developing these capabilities, the team enables all of Workday's applications and services to proactively own and deliver performance and scalability at various levels.
Furthermore, the team actively influences development practices by highlighting the importance of addressing performance bottlenecks. They meticulously triage and identify the root causes of recurring issues, quantifying the impact on customers and system resources with data-driven insights. They also assist other teams in analyzing the performance implications of new features, services, and microservices before their deployment. Committed to continuous improvement, the Resiliency Engineering Team constantly seeks opportunities to enhance performance within the organization and align with broader company goals.
About the Role
Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment
Collaborate with Engineers, Sr Engineers and technical product managers to analyze functional requirements, devise architecture designs that provide real scalability, low latency, and high availability.
Be responsible for system performance and stability by proactively identifying and diagnosing issues and rapidly identifying root causes to address production issues.
Characterize Performance, Scalability and Resiliency to stakeholders
Participate in escalations to drive the technical conversations
About You
Basic Qualifications:
3+ years experience in application development or cloud related technologies
Experience in object oriented programming experience in a JVM language
Experience with operations and Scalability study of large scale distributed systems.
Experience with micro services architecture or Distributed Programming, Memory, concurrency of software solutions
Experience in Application code profiling and performance tuning
Experience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana, Splunk
Experience in Cloud Deployment and cloud technologies
Superb written and verbal communication skills.
Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field
Additional Qualifications:
Unix or Linux experience
Public Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Open source project contributions
Experience in Agile development methodologies
Data Science: jupyter notebooks, python, pandas
Public Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
SQL skills or equivalent experience
Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing
Experience with Automation and profiling tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, Jmeter, Loadrunner, Gatling, JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/top
Web Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST)
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Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
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