Sr Principal, Software Development Engineer

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

Do you embrace change and thrive in a dynamic environment? Do you love plowing through uncharted territories, breaking down problems and designing innovative solutions? If yes, the Performance Resiliency and Scalability team at Workday is right for you!

We triage problems related to performance, scale, fault tolerance and resiliency in a distributed computing environment, multi cloud, and engage with the development teams to deliver the optimal customer experience. We build a suite of internal tools that serve a myriad of business requirements such as gathering and diagnosing logs, execute and interpret load tests, analyze big data in a simple manner using notebooks and many more use cases. Through this tool development we enable and empower all of Workday’s apps and services to take ownership of and deliver performance and scalability to different levels.

About the Role

Work effectively in an agile team to define, build, deploy and own new features. Drive and support innovation and continuously deliver improvement ideas. Own the design and delivery of technical solutions. Have fun engineering software.

Workday is looking for an outstanding Sr Principal or Principal Performance Engineer to join our Tools Performance Engineering team.

Performance Engineers are highly skilled engineers who debug, measure, analyze, and improve our Workday software. They are generalists with deep technical understanding of software, distributed systems, cloud computing, cloud technologies, deployment, hardware, networking, and the Internet.  They enjoy taking a holistic view of complex systems.  Application Performance is achieved by working closely with all our engineering teams throughout the release cycle. Our ultimate goal is application performance that yields an excellent end user experience and scales to meet Software as a Service Infrastructure needs.

• Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment 

• Collaborate with architects, principal engineers and technical product managers to analyze functional requirements, devise architecture designs that provide real scalability, low latency, and high availability.

• Be responsible for system performance and stability by proactively identifying and diagnosing issues and rapidly identifying root cause to address production issues.

• Characterize Performance, Scalability and Resiliency to stakeholders

• Be an evangelist of our Technologies and Products. Influence and collaborate across teams

• Define/validate the charter of Future technology and methodology

• Participate in escalations to drive the technical conversations 

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.

About You

Basic Qualifications

For Sr Principal Engineer or Principal Engineer

• 8-+ years of object oriented programming experience in a JVM language, Java, C#, Python etc

• Have 3 + yrs of experience as a Sr Principal /Principal Engineer or Architect

• 4+ yrs of experience with operations and Scalability study of large scale distributed systems and micro services architecture

• 4+ yrs of experience in Distributed Programming, Memory, concurrency of software solution

• Experience in large Cloud Deployment and cloud technologies such as  AWS or GCP

• Experience in Application code profiling and performance tuning

• Experience in High Availability, Resiliency and Chaos Engineering

• Experience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana, Splunk

• Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field

Other Qualifications

• Experience working with AI and/ or Machine Learning

• Experience with Data Science and Big Data technologies, Hadoop, Spark, Hive

• Web Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST)

• Experience with Automation and profiling tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, Jmeter, Load-runner, Gatling, JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/top

• Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Evaluation

• Ability to take a leadership role in projects that span multiple teams with the ability to deliver in an agile environment.

• Superb written and verbal communication skills.

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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.CA.Pleasanton

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $240,000 USD - $360,000 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $190,000 USD - $360,000 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.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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