Senior Software Development Engineer

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

We are the Platform Storage team at Workday. We are a team of software engineers primarily responsible for development, testing, delivery and management of two major projects in Workday: Ceph and ImaaS/Base Image.
Ceph is an modern, open-source, distributed and highly-available system used to provide a range of virtualised storage services within Workday data centres such as block and object storage. Ceph is seeing a major expansion this year in Workday supporting DR & resiliency requirements and a rollout support MySQL backups, increasing our global storage capacity to almost 150 PB. We expect to see continuous growth of Ceph as the strategic storage platform within Workday.
ImaaS (Image as a service) is responsible for the building and management of virtual machine and container images in Workday, supporting services and applications running in our data centres (on OpenStack) as well as on public clouds (e.g. AWS/GCP). ImaaS is a critical tool for image management and vulnerability management within Workday.

About the Role

You will:

• Work with a dynamic team of Software/DevOps engineers developing, testing, managing and maintaining our storage platform, base image and image services.

• Work with the team to define the Storage roadmap in partnership with product managers.

• Work with the team to manage and continuously improve the quality, performance, high-availability and scalability of our platforms.

• Build close relationships with other technical experts, internal and external partners, customers and stakeholders.

About You

The ideal candidate should possess a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent, and have held a senior position in software development previously.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience developing high-quality software systems, using modern practices of testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

• Solid knowledge of Linux systems.

• Basic understanding of storage, networking and virtualisation.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to adapt quickly, learn and grow in the role.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Ceph or other storage systems.

• Experience with languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, C/C++ and Rust would be a plus but we are not restricted to these languages.

• Automation, orchestration and configuration management systems (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, etc.).

• Virtualisation and container-orchestration systems (OpenStack, VMware, Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, etc).

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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