Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Kafka/Redis, Hybrid

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

Job summary

Workday Ireland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Messaging, Streaming and Caching team. You will design, build, and operate distributed services across AWS, GCP, and private clouds, shaping core middleware used by Workday products.

We value expertise in Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ and NoSQL ecosystems, with a track record of leading large-scale deployments. This role offers flexible work options and the chance to impact 10,000+ global customers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience 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 and maintenance.
• Experience with distributed systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc.
• Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a mix of open source and proprietary stacks.
• Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching.
• Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services.
• Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments.
• Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence.
• Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms.
• Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP & Private cloud env.

Skills

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

Zookeeper

Java/Scala

Golang

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Helm

Linux

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Chef

Job description

Workday Ireland is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Messaging, Streaming and Caching team. You will design, build, and operate distributed services across AWS, GCP, and private clouds, shaping core middleware used by Workday products.

We value expertise in Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ and NoSQL ecosystems, with a track record of leading large-scale deployments. This role offers flexible work options and the chance to impact 10,000+ global customers.