Software Development Engineer (Performance, Resiliency and Scalability)

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About the Team

We are excited to announce an outstanding opportunity to join Workday Inc as a Software Development Engineer (Performance, Resiliency and Scalability). The Performance, Resilience and Scalability Engineering team is looking for the best candidates to help drive performance analysis, optimization of Workday's leading enterprise cloud HCM, Analytics and Financial offerings.

About the Role

The team has a broad charter that spans from debugging and recreating specific customer issues, to using the latest Big Data techniques in order to extract practical data and model future capacity needs. The position is ideally suited to candidates from a performance engineering or development background with a deep focus on performance and resiliency engineering. Workday Performance, Resiliency and Scalability Engineers are generalists with deep technical understanding of software, hardware, networking and modern distributed systems. They enjoy taking a comprehensive view of sophisticated systems. They are developers, analysts, engineers, testers and data scientists. Application Performance is achieved by working closely with Development, Product Management, Support and Operation teams. Our ultimate goal is application performance that yields an excellent end-user experience.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in Software Development with roles like Developer, Performance Engineer or Service Reliability Engineer.
• Bachelors Degree (or higher) (Computer Science or Software Engineering preferable)

Other Qualifications:

• Experience with any of the tools used for performance and Scalability studies Load-runner, JProfiler, Jconsole, Gatling, Postman and system tools vmstat/strace, sar etc.
• Good understanding of Object-oriented programming languages like Java, C#, Scala
• Good understanding of performance analysis, capacity planning and SaaS architecture.
• Background in system architectures, high-performance computing, and distributed systems.
• Large scale, distributed software design & development experience in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Well versed in design & algorithms as well as strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Experience in effectively working with cross-functional organizations.
• Good understanding of private & public cloud.    
• Experience in dealing with live production issues.
• Experience and passion for Data Science and Big Data technologies, Hadoop, Hive, ElasticSearch, Apache, Spark
• Prior Experience with public cloud platforms such AWS and GCP
• Experience with Chaos Engineering and associated system resilience engineering techniques
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Data Analysis using Jupiter Notebooks, Goku etc. 
• Familiarity with Kibana, Wavefront etc

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $128,800 USD - $193,200 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD

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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