Senior Observability Engineer – Scalable Distributed Systems

Workday

Atlanta (GA)

Hybrid

USD 137,000 - 222,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Workday is hiring for an Observability Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform and Observability team. This role focuses on scaling and operating real-time data systems across Workday's platforms and services, including security-conscious government-contract contexts.

You will deploy and manage metrics, logs, and dashboards while collaborating with cyber defense and other engineering teams. You will join a team that values scalable distributed systems, robust cloud engineering, and strong

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Minimum 5 years of experience building and deploying highly scalable software.
Experience deploying software to public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Scripting skills with any programming language.
Understanding of distributed systems.
Good knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes.
Experience with Linux-based system administration.

Responsibilities

Use Terraform and Argo CD to deploy services to EKS AWS in production environments.
Operate metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for large-scale data across indexes and time series.
Collaborate with cyber defense to ensure security, governance, and compliance.
Participate in on-call rotation for observability platform.
Write ADRs, RCAs, and runbooks documenting critical decisions.
Work with Government and non-government environments to ensure healthy practices.
Build out CI/CD tooling and test environments; improve automation.
Create new metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards to observability gaps.
May work from an air-gapped region or SCIF as required.