Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Kafka Redis Expert

Workday; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a senior software engineer with a distributed systems background to join the Data Platform and Observability team. You will design, build and operate large-scale distributed services, including Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ, across public and private clouds.

The role requires hands-on development and DevOps experience, with Kubernetes, OpenStack and Helm/ArgoCD. You will lead features from conception to deployment and collaborate across engineering teams to improve performance and

Qualifications

• Senior software engineer with distributed-systems background.
• Experience deploying large-scale NoSQL and messaging systems.
• 6+ years software engineering; 4+ years distributed systems.
• Experience with EU Sovereign Cloud or regulated cloud environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core distributed services for streaming, messaging, and caching.
• Lead deployment of Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ clusters at scale.
• Develop observability modules and dashboards for production systems.
• Operate and optimize services across AWS, GCP, and private clouds.
• Participate in on-call rotations and ensure resiliency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Java/Scala

Golang

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Helm

ArgoCD

Chef

CI/CD

Linux tuning

DevOps

Security/compliance

EU Sovereign Cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Helm

ArgoCD

Chef

Job description

Workday is seeking a senior software engineer with a distributed systems background to join the Data Platform and Observability team. You will design, build and operate large-scale distributed services, including Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ, across public and private clouds.

The role requires hands-on development and DevOps experience, with Kubernetes, OpenStack and Helm/ArgoCD. You will lead features from conception to deployment and collaborate across engineering teams to improve performance and