Role OverviewAs a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems, you will work on building and operating observability infrastructure for metrics ingestion and alerting across Workday's global production environments. You will design, build, and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments, develop platform services for metrics ingestion, processing, and alerting at scale, and shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling, APIs, and operational workflows.
What You Will Do
Design, build, and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments, develop platform services for metrics ingestion, processing, and alerting at scale, and shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling, APIs, and operational workflows.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, fault tolerance, high availability, and failure-mode analysis. You will also contribute to agentic engineering, building tools and workflows that help engineers and AI agents operate the platform more effectively.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade systems
- 4+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems on public or private clouds
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, fault tolerance, high availability, and failure-mode analysis
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- Competitive base salary range: €96,000 EUR - €144,000 EUR
- Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus
- Annual refresh stock grants awarded by Workday Inc.
- Flexible work arrangement with a minimum of 50% in-person time each quarter
- Opportunity to come together in the office for important moments
- Paid holidays
- Healthcare benefits
- PTO
- Retirement plan
- Learning budget
- Parental leave
- Wellness programs
- Visa/relocation assistance
- Remote flexibility
- Stipends
- Bonus/commission
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