Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Kafka/NoSQL

Workday; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 96,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday in Ireland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ). You will design, build, and operate scalable services across private and public clouds, collaborating with teams across the globe.

The role emphasizes on-call support, deployment automation, and robust performance under load. You will contribute to core middleware and NoSQL platforms, with opportunities to lead features from conception to deployment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with Java/Scala and Golang.
• 4+ years of distributed systems experience.
• 3+ years of development and DevOps in large-scale distributed NoSQL and messaging systems.
• 1+ year of leading a NoSQL technology product from conception to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance distributed services (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ).
• Deploy and maintain core services across Kubernetes/OpenStack/Bare Metal environments.
• Develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching.
• Create observability modules and automation for dashboard lifecycle management.
• Operate and optimize distributed services in cloud and private environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support distributed platforms.

Skills

Java/Scala

Golang

Distributed systems

Leadership

Communication

CI/CD

Tools

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Zookeeper

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Helm

ArgoCD

Chef

Linux

Job description

Workday in Ireland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in distributed systems (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ). You will design, build, and operate scalable services across private and public clouds, collaborating with teams across the globe.

The role emphasizes on-call support, deployment automation, and robust performance under load. You will contribute to core middleware and NoSQL platforms, with opportunities to lead features from conception to deployment.