Senior PostgreSQL Engineer - Cloud & Scaling

Workday, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 86,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a skilled PostgreSQL engineer in Ireland to scale, optimize, and shard our database infrastructure as our product area grows. You will work with PostgreSQL in AWS/RDS, monitor performance, and partner with DevOps to provision resources based on workload needs.

The role emphasizes tuning, capacity planning, and cross-region considerations, with a flexible mix of in-office and remote work. Prior experience with Rails AR is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PostgreSQL experience including planning and provisioning database instances.
• Commercial experience managing PostgreSQL performance relative to workloads.
• PostgreSQL deployment in public clouds, preferably AWS and RDS.

Responsibilities

• Scale, optimize and shard PostgreSQL databases in line with growth.
• Analyze workloads and predict capacity to inform provisioning with DevOps.
• Recommend tooling and monitoring solutions for database health and performance.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS

Database performance

Database scaling

ORMs (Rails AR)

Tools

Monitoring tools

AWS services

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a skilled PostgreSQL engineer in Ireland to scale, optimize, and shard our database infrastructure as our product area grows. You will work with PostgreSQL in AWS/RDS, monitor performance, and partner with DevOps to provision resources based on workload needs.

The role emphasizes tuning, capacity planning, and cross-region considerations, with a flexible mix of in-office and remote work. Prior experience with Rails AR is a plus.