Server vacancy in Dublin Ireland

Principal Performance Engineer (Public Cloud)
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
Workday employs the latest technologies to support the processing of billions of monthly transactions for the world's largest enterprises. The Performance Resilience and Scalability Engineering team is looking for the best candidates to help drive performance resiliency and scalability of Workday’s leading enterprise cloud HCM Analytics and Financial offerings.
About the Role

The position within the Performance Resiliency and Scalability group is ideally suited to senior candidates from a performance engineering or development background with a deep focus on performance and resiliency engineering specialising in Public Cloud related technologies. The team has a broad charter that spans from profiling and optimising distributed architectures to the debugging and recreation of specific customer issues to using the latest Big Data/Machine Learning techniques in order to extract actionable data and model future capacity and scalability needs. Workday Performance Resiliency and Scalability Engineers are highly skilled and rigorous engineers who debug measure support and improve our software and platforms. They play a critical role in optimizing services across the full technology stack where they distill opaque problems into actionable solutions.

About You

Basic Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or 10+ years of equivalent relevant experience
Development or Operation experience designing analysing and optimising large distributed architectures on Public Cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
Experience supporting server orchestration solutions in production such as Kubernetes Mesos or Docker
Excellent knowledge of performance and resilience engineering methodology testing techniques and approaches
Experience triaging and resolving pipeline and production issues
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Must be able to seamlessly transition between solo and team projects

Other Qualifications
Certifications relating to Kubernetes and public cloud providers such as GCP and AWS
Experience with service health instrumentation and associated observability and instrumentation tooling such as Grafana or ELK
Experience with Performance Load Stress and Scalability Testing and load testing tools such as Jmeter or Gatling
Knowledge of storage networking and configuration management
Experience with Data Science and ML technologies
Proven ability to debug/administer Linux based operating systems with Infrastructure and application performance tuning and optimisation


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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