Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Kafka, Redis, Cloud

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

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a senior distributed systems engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale messaging, streaming, and caching services. You will contribute to core middleware platforms, develop client libraries, and help run clusters across private and public clouds.

The role emphasizes resiliency, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, with flexible/hybrid work in Ireland and the EU sovereign cloud context.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experiences as a Kafka, Redis or RabbitMQ Admin with cloud platform experience.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience using Java/Scala or Golang.
• 4+ years of distributed systems experience.
• 3+ years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed NoSQL & messaging systems.
• 1+ year of leading a NoSQL technology related product from conception to deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ.
• Design, develop, deploy and maintain core distributed services across Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc.
• Develop modules for streaming, messaging and caching.
• Construct observability modules and automation for dashboard lifecycle management.
• Operate and tune distributed service clusters in production.
• Champion resiliency and operational excellence across services.
• Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools as needed.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support the platforms.
• Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP & Private cloud.

Skills

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Zookeeper

Java/Scala

Golang

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Ireland is seeking a senior distributed systems engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale messaging, streaming, and caching services. You will contribute to core middleware platforms, develop client libraries, and help run clusters across private and public clouds.

The role emphasizes resiliency, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams, with flexible/hybrid work in Ireland and the EU sovereign cloud context.