SRE Database Engineer: Scale, Reliability & Automation

Workday; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Database Site Reliability Engineer to join our Environments Data Services team. You will manage enterprise-scale MySQL and open-source databases, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across production and development systems.

Join a distributed team that values automation, on-call responsiveness, and scalable architectures. You’ll collaborate with engineers across platforms to deliver reliable database services at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in database engineering or reliability roles.
• Experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL).
• Proficient in Linux, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Strong scripting: Shell, Python, Ruby.
• Experience with automation and configuration tools.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support large-scale MySQL and open-source databases across prod and dev.
• Participate in on‑call rotation for critical production issues.
• Drive automation to improve availability and scalability.
• Help architect existing and new database services in production.

Skills

Database engineering

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Cloud databases

Linux

Kubernetes

Docker

Automation scripting

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Chef

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub

JIRA

Confluence

Ceph

Job description

Workday is seeking a Database Site Reliability Engineer to join our Environments Data Services team. You will manage enterprise-scale MySQL and open-source databases, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across production and development systems.

Join a distributed team that values automation, on-call responsiveness, and scalable architectures. You’ll collaborate with engineers across platforms to deliver reliable database services at scale.