Software Development Engineer

Workday•Reston, VA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Workday is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join their Database Engineering Team. This team designs, builds, develops, maintains, and supervises database infrastructure, ensuring Workday’s data-related needs are met with dedication and scale, while providing high availability. The team is responsible for designing, automating, managing, and running databases on Private and Public Cloud Platforms. They are looking for individuals with strong experience in backend development specializing in database as a service, with deep experience in Open Source database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL, and other Cloud Native database technologies. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and managing enterprise-level database systems with complex interdependencies and a key focus on high-availability, clustering, security, performance, and scalability requirements.

Requirements

4+ years experience in designing/developing/automating and managing mission critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
4+ years of experience in backend development using modern programming languages (Golang, Python, Java) including Architecture, Design and Development.
4+ years hands-on experience in Cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure.
4+ years experience managing clustered, highly-available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux.
Minimum 4+ years working experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.
Familiarity with AWS Gov Cloud.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of automation tools such as Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
Familiarity with tools such as Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage.
Experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
Excellent team player with extraordinary written & verbal communication skills.
BS/MS degree in computer science.

Responsibilities

Architecting, designing, developing, and managing DBaaS service for Workday Database Infrastructure.
Designing and developing APIs to improve the availability, scalability, and performance of databases running on multiple clouds.
Writing APIs and developing dashboards to measure database KPIs.
Keeping observability as a focus for all database monitoring and improving/implementing auto remediation techniques.
Providing support for large-scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments.
Serving in an on-call rotation supporting database infrastructure.
Partnering with service and performance teams for continuous architecture improvements, resiliency, and performance.