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Workday
Software Development Engineer (Data Platform)
Skills
GolangJavaCassandraKafkaRedisRabbitMQScalaLinuxKubernetesWorkdayCertificate ManagementCompliance
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
€72,000 – €108,000 / year
Location:
Ireland
Work mode:
Hybrid
Published on:
11 September 2026
What they need
- The Messaging, Streaming and Caching team is a full-service Distributed Systems Engineering team
- We architect and provide async messaging, streaming, and NoSQL platforms and solutions that power the Workday products and SKUs ranging from core HCM, Fins, Integrations, and AI/ML
- We develop client libraries and SDK’s that make it easy for teams to build Workday products
- We develop automation to deploy and run hundreds of clusters, and we also operate and tune our clusters as well
- As a team member you will play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workday’s infrastructure both in our private cloud and public cloud
- As a member of this team you will design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services, and work hand in hand with our application and service teams!
- Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc
- Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc.)
- Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching
- Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services
- Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments
- Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence
- Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed
- Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms
- Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP & Private cloud environments- 3+ years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed NoSQL & messaging systems
- 5+ years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following: Java/Scala, Golang
- 4+ years of distributed systems experience
- 5+ years of experiences as a Kafka, Redis or RabbitMQ Admin with cloud platform experience
- You have independently led product features and deployed on large scale NoSQL clusters
- You are a senior software engineer with a distributed systems background and significant experience in distributed systems products like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ or Zookeeper
- 1+ year of leading a NoSQL technology related product right from conception to deployment and maintenance
- Extensive experience with modern software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile
- Preferred Experience – EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV)
- Candidates with experience supporting EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV) or other regulated cloud environments are highly preferred
- Expertise with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD
- Experience learning complex open source service internals via code inspection
- Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization
- Experience with Linux system internals and tuning
- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background
- Hands-on experience with atleast one or more distributed systems technologies like Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra
- Expertise in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load
- A consistent track record of technical project leadership and success involving collaborators and interested partners across the enterprise
- Operating production workloads in sovereign, government, or regulated cloud environments
- Managing Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ in environments with strict data residency, compliance, and security requirements
- Supporting compliance initiatives such as GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar regulatory frameworks
- Implementing platform security controls, including IAM, RBAC, TLS, encryption, certificate management, and secrets management
- Collaborating with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to prepare for audits and maintain operational compliance
- Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience for mission-critical distributed platforms
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