Sr PostgreSQL Engineer

Paradox; Dublin; On-site; EUR 86,400 - 129,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Job summary

Workday Ireland, Dublin, is seeking a senior PostgreSQL engineer to scale, optimise and shard our database infrastructure in line with rapid product growth. You will work with PostgreSQL, ideally within AWS, to manage capacity, tuning and deployment across public clouds.

You will collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to ensure stability and performance while using ORMs like Rails/ActiveRecord and monitoring tools to prevent bottlenecks.

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, optimise and shard database infrastructure to support growth.
• Improve stability, performance and scalability of our database systems.
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to provision capacity and monitoring.
• Propose pragmatic solutions to complex database challenges.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Performance tuning

SQL optimization

Database scaling

ORMs (Rails/ActiveRecord)

Tools

AWS

RDS

Monitoring tools

Job description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun‑drenched optimism and drive. Whether you’re building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

You would be joining a team that is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure stability, performance and scalability of our systems and engineering practices. Lately we have been busy working on our codebase modularisation and ensuring we have a durable, self‑healing background processing system just to name a few. We face daily challenges with problems that do not have obvious or simple solutions. We are excited to meet team members that are self‑sufficient and purpose driven and able to align to the business goals and long term strategic direction.

About the Role

You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimise and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing.

This role requires a person that :

• understands database performance and our current workloads
• has a good knowledge of connection management and how system resources are used on a database server
• is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)
• Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)
• predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.

We are also interested to hear about:

• working with databases that cross‑regions/datacenters
• working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework

About You

Basic 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

Other qualifications

• You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems
• You seek innovative solutions to problems
• You find opportunities to teach others
• You are a team player, you motivate your teammates
• You are responsible, helpful, and kind

We believe every potential recruit brings value to the table. Believe you are missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and are happy to teach. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, apply and see what we are all about.

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Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role‑specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: €86,400 EUR - €129,600 EUR Ireland

Our Approach to Flexible Work

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