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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

As a member of the Intelligent Automation team you will assist and lead in the research, development, build, and support of scale remote procedure call, automation, orchestration, and heuristics-based DevOps/AIOps solutions across a wide swath of Workday’s technical areas. Our IA team has built several critical tools that support Workday’s SaaS properties, its engineers, and its management. Our products and tools typically go from a need based conceptual discussion with our stakeholders to production deployment. We follow agile methodologies. We look to amplify or reuse our existing frameworks where possible but are always developing and evaluating new technology to meet our customer’s needs:

Our key focus:

To maximize Workday’s automation investments by creating platforms and services that enable engineers the ability to compose, execute, schedule, and track highly repetitive automation and orchestration tasks through a consistent, intuitive, and scalable self-service framework.

Provide cost optimization by improving operational efficiency and business agility through automation

Provide risk mitigation by converting error prone human driven manual tasks into data, event, or response initiated repeatable automation as code at scale

About the Role

Position Overview

As a member of the Intelligent Automation team you will assist and lead in the research, development, build, and support of scale remote procedure call, automation, orchestration, and heuristics-based DevOps/AIOps solutions across a wide swath of Workday’s technical areas. Our IA team has built several critical tools that support Workday’s SaaS properties, its engineers, and its management. Our products and tools typically go from a need based conceptual discussion with our customers to production deployment. We follow agile methodologies. We look to amplify or reuse our existing frameworks where possible but are always developing and evaluating new technology to meet our customer’s needs:

Our key focus:

• To enhance Workday’s automation investments by creating platforms and services that enable engineers the ability to compose, execute, schedule, and track highly repetitive automation and orchestration tasks through a consistent, intuitive, and scalable self-service framework.
• Provide cost optimization by improving operational efficiency and business agility through automation
• Provide risk mitigation by converting error prone human driven manual tasks into data, event, or response initiated repeatable automation as code at scale

About You

Basic Qualifications for Senior Engineer:

Other Qualifications:

Core Technical/Engineering Requirements

• NOTE: The following are examples of specific technical items that can be swapped with equivalent technologies. The interviewer will be able to distinguish between related technologies and be able to determine how the candidates technical experience matches with the necessary technical skills to perform the job.
• IaaS technology – AWS/Azure/GCP – Full Understanding and ability to construct a complete cloud infrastructure composed of compute, storage (object/block), network, database, interfacing services, security rules, containers, and container management technology (CNCF). Candidate should have familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, puppet/chef/ansible, helm, k8s etc.
• Core Coding Experience – Highly proficient in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java, or Python. Ability to transfer tacit knowledge of one language to another within a reasonable period. Reference-able work on Opensource projects within GitHub are a plus.
• Data Stream and Steam Manipulation – Experience and solid background in Streaming technologies including but not limited to Kafka Streams, RMQ, NATS Streaming etc. Understanding of how to construct and interact with stream processors at scale.
• Architecture type experience – Strong familiarity with various architecture types from SOA, MSA, Monolithic. Ability to design, code, contribute to applications that require high degrees of availability, fault tolerance, and can provide spanned coverage on unreliable infrastructures. (including compute and network)
• Agile Methodologies – Have familiarity with how to work and interact within an Agile team.

Basic Qualifications for Principal Engineer:

Other Qualifications:

Core Technical/Engineering Requirements

• NOTE: The following are examples of specific technical items that can be swapped with equivalent technologies. The interviewer will be able to distinguish between related technologies and be able to determine how the candidates technical experience matches with the necessary technical skills to perform the job.
• IaaS technology – AWS/Azure/GCP – Full Understanding and ability to construct a complete cloud infrastructure composed of compute, storage (object/block), network, database, interfacing services, security rules, containers, and container management technology (CNCF). Candidate should have familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, puppet/chef/ansible, helm, k8s etc.
• Core Coding Experience – Highly proficient in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java, or Python. Ability to transfer tacit knowledge of one language to another within a reasonable period. Reference-able work on Opensource projects within GitHub are a plus.
• Architecture type experience – Strong familiarity with various architecture types from SOA, MSA, Monolithic. Ability to design, code, contribute to applications that require high degrees of availability, fault tolerance, and can provide spanned coverage on unreliable infrastructures. (including compute and network)
• Stakeholder Analysis – Ability to interview and form relationships with our engineering and management customers to satisfy their needs and deliver functional software in a timely manner.
• Agile Methodologies – Have familiarity with how to work and interact within an Agile team.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

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.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!