Senior Software Engineer, DBaas (US Federal)

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

Are you passionate about database technologies? Do you love to solve complex, large-scale database challenges in the world today using code and as a service? If yes, then read on!

• This position is responsible for architecting, designing, developing and managing DBaaS service for Workday Database Infrastructure.
• Design and develop APIs to improve the availability, scalability, and performance of databases running on multiple clouds.
• Write APIs and develop dashboards to measure database KPIs.
• Keeps observability as a focus for all database monitoring and improve / implement auto remediation techniques.
• Provide support for large scale database instances across production, non-production and development environments
• Serve in an on-call rotation supporting database infrastructure
• Partner with service and performance teams for continuous architecture improvements, resiliency, and performance.

About You

Basic Qualifications :

• 6+ years experience in designing / developing / automating and managing mission critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
• 3+ years of experience in backend development using modern programming languages (Golang, Python, Java) including Architecture, Design and Development
• 2+ years hands-on experience in Cloud hyperscalers AWS , Google Cloud and / or Microsoft Azure
• 3+ years experience managing clustered, highly-available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux
• Minimum 5+ years working experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.

Other Qualifications :

• 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.

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.CO.BoulderPrimary Location Base Pay Range : $124,000 USD - $186,000 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $117,800 USD - $210,000 USD