Senior PostgreSQL Engineer – Scale & Optimize in AWS

Workday; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex Work

Stock grants

Bonus plan

Job summary

Workday Ireland is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Engineer to help scale, optimize, and shard our database infrastructure in line with rapid product growth. You will tune PostgreSQL instances, manage AWS-based deployments, and ensure efficient resource usage across multi-region setups.

The role requires strong experience with PostgreSQL, AWS/RDS, and database performance tuning, with a collaborative, problem-solving mindset and a focus on delivering robust data platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances.
• Commercial experience managing PostgreSQL database performance relative to workload requirements.
• Proven database deployment experience, particularly in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering).
• PostgreSQL development experience in a scaled environment.

Responsibilities

• Scale, optimize and shard database infrastructure to support growth.
• Tune and configure PostgreSQL, ideally within AWS.
• Assist DevOps to provision capacity and monitor system resources.
• Collaborate with teams using ORMs and Rails/ActiveRecord.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS

Performance tuning

Monitoring

SQL

Tools

RDS

AWS Console

Job description

Workday Ireland is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Engineer to help scale, optimize, and shard our database infrastructure in line with rapid product growth. You will tune PostgreSQL instances, manage AWS-based deployments, and ensure efficient resource usage across multi-region setups.

The role requires strong experience with PostgreSQL, AWS/RDS, and database performance tuning, with a collaborative, problem-solving mindset and a focus on delivering robust data platforms.