Senior Messaging and Streaming Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

About the Role

The Messaging, Streaming and NoSQL team is a full-service Engineering and DevOps team. We architect and provide messaging, streaming, and NoSQL solutions such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Redis to internal teams to enable new Workday features.

We develop Java client libraries that make it easy for other teams to use our solutions. We develop automation to deploy and run hundreds of clusters, and we also operate and tune our clusters as well.

As a team member you will play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workday's compute infrastructure.

As a member of this distributed systems team you will design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services, and work hand in hand with our application and service teams!

About You

You are a senior software engineer with distributed systems background and significant experience in a distributed Messaging product like RabbitMQ.

You have independently led product features and deployed large scale Messaging clusters.

Basic Qualifications

7+ years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following : Erlang, Ruby, Golang, Python, Java.

3+ years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed messaging and streaming technologies like Kafka and RabbitMQ.

3+ years Demonstrated experience with RabbitMQ features asynchronous messaging with multiple messaging protocols, message queuing, delivery acknowledgement, flexible routing to queues, and multiple exchange types etc.

Other Qualifications

Experience in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load.

Experience with Apache Pulsar would be a bonus

Experience with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD.

Experience learning complex open-source service internals via code inspection.

Experience with modern software development tools including CI / CD and methodologies like Agile.

Experience with Linux system internals and tuning.

Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science

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.

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Primary Location : USA.CA.PleasantonPrimary Location Base Pay Range : $182,200 USD - $273,200 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $154,700 USD - $273,200 USD