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 TeamWorkday is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our 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.About the RoleIn addition to an enjoyment of a collaborative, open and encouraging working environment, you will:Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers and Product Managers to influence architectural changes in the product that provides real scalability, low latency, and high availability.Develop prototypes in various layers of workday stack which propose alternate solutions to existing performance issues. Build tools to expedite, enhance and ease multiple aspects of performance analysis.Play pivotal role in debugging, analyzing, quantifying complex production issuesParticipate in escalations to drive the technical conversationsCharacterize Performance, Scalability and Resiliency to stakeholdersProvide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers.About YouBasic Qualifications7+ years experience in application development or cloud related technologiesExperience in object oriented programming Experience with operations or scalability study of large scale distributed systems.Other Qualifications:Public Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Google Cloud, AzureExperience with Data Science and Big Data technologies, Hadoop, Spark, HiveWeb Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST)Proficient in programming languages like Java, C#, Python etc.Experience with micro services architecture or Distributed ProgrammingExperience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana, SplunkExperience with Automation and profiling tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, JProfiler, Gatling, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/topExperience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability EvaluationSQL skills or equivalent experienceLinux/Unix expertiseBachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field or equivalent years of experienceAre you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
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