Sr PostgreSQL Engineer

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

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, optimize 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 a 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

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 do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and are happy to teach.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)

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.

Primary Location: Ireland

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

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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