Senior Distributed Systems Engineer – Observability Platform

Workday, Inc.

Dublin

Hybrid

EUR 96,000 - 144,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to design, build, and operate observability infrastructure for metrics ingestion and alerting across our global production environments.

You will work on distributed systems at scale, collecting, processing, and acting on operational data with a focus on reliability, performance, and simplicity. You’ll contribute to agentic engineering, build tools and workflows that help engineers and AI agents operate the platform more

Qualifications

6+ years of professional software engineering in production-grade systems.
4+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems on public or private clouds.
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, fault tolerance, high availability, and failure-mode analysis.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments.
Develop platform services for metrics ingestion, processing, and alerting at scale.
Shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling, APIs, and operational workflows.
Collaborate across teams to deliver infrastructure that is resilient, observable, and easy to operate.