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

Workday is building a new Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE) responsible for deploying, operating and supporting critical Services into production.

This team will operate in an agile manner. It will seek to become a shining exemplar of SRE principles, holding the focus firmly on service reliability.

About the Role

The primary function of the SRE team is to ensure the reliability of the services, to remove Toil, and to scale sustainably in line with business growth. All SRE responsibilities and team growth will be supported by Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Workday offers a competitive salary and restricted stock options among other excellent employee benefits.

The role entails a hybrid of software engineering and operations, with an emphasis on reducing operational toil. Automation work is planned by following scrum practices with two week sprints.

SRE engineers bring a software centric approach to improving operational efficiency.

SRE team as it matures is responsible for the operations of the platform, including production incident response and automated runbook enhancements to reduce on-call toil.

SRE team defines effective SLIs and ensures that SLOs are achieved through building an extendable Observability architecture, runbook automation, and establishing processes.

Improve platform reliability, observability and overall customer satisfaction.

Partner with platform teams to design and pilot SRE standards for their respective services to meet. Define benchmarks and automation to qualify services to move to production environments.

The responsibilities and reach of this SRE team will scale sustainably

About You

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of SRE experience

Extensive engineering experience with Linux

Hands on experience and knowledge of Kubernetes

Proficiency with at least one programming language

Understanding of software development standard methodologies such as code management, CI/CD

Academic qualification in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years relevant experience

Other Qualifications

Skills and passion to operate, maintain, support and sustain the platform

Enthusiastic automator, with a track record of referenceable examples

Capable skills for full stack debugging and diagnosing problems across configuration, Linux Operating Systems, and on the network.

Knowledge of extending Kubernetes is an advantage (eg: CRDs/Operators/Controllers)

Can work independently and with the approach that everything can be automated

Excited by working in a fast-paced environment

Experience collaborating with multi-functional global and remote teams with a diverse set of backgrounds

Excellent documentation skills

Ideally, you have knowledge and experience of at least one public cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

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.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!