Principal Intelligent Automation and AIOps Software Development Engineer

  • Dublin
  • Workday, Inc.
About the Role Position OverviewAs a member of the Intelligent Automation team you will assist and lead in the research, development, build, and support of scale remote procedure call, automation, orchestration, and heuristics-based DevOps/AIOps solutions across a wide swath of Workday’s technical areas. Our IA team has built several critical tools that support Workday’s SaaS properties, its engineers, and its management. Our products and tools typically go from a need based conceptual discussion with our customers to production deployment. We follow agile methodologies. We look to amplify or reuse our existing frameworks where possible but are always developing and evaluating new technology to meet our customer’s needs:Our key focus:To enhance Workday’s automation investments by creating platforms and services that enable engineers the ability to compose, execute, schedule, and track highly repetitive automation and orchestration tasks through a consistent, intuitive, and scalable self-service framework.Provide cost optimization by improving operational efficiency and business agility through automationProvide risk mitigation by converting error prone human driven manual tasks into data, event, or response initiated repeatable automation as code at scaleAbout YouBasic Qualifications for Senior Engineer: 5 or more years of experience in industry performing a variety of technical and leadership rolesBachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalentOther Qualifications: Core Technical/Engineering RequirementsNOTE: The following are examples of specific technical items that can be swapped with equivalent technologies. The interviewer will be able to distinguish between related technologies and be able to determine how the candidates technical experience matches with the necessary technical skills to perform the job.IaaS technology – AWS/Azure/GCP – Full Understanding and ability to construct a complete cloud infrastructure composed of compute, storage (object/block), network, database, interfacing services, security rules, containers, and container management technology (CNCF). Candidate should have familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, puppet/chef/ansible, helm, k8s etc.Core Coding Experience – Highly proficient in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java, or Python. Ability to transfer tacit knowledge of one language to another within a reasonable period. Reference-able work on Opensource projects within GitHub are a plus.Data Stream and Steam Manipulation – Experience and solid background in Streaming technologies including but not limited to Kafka Streams, RMQ, NATS Streaming etc. Understanding of how to construct and interact with stream processors at scale.Architecture type experience – Strong familiarity with various architecture types from SOA, MSA, Monolithic. Ability to design, code, contribute to applications that require high degrees of availability, fault tolerance, and can provide spanned coverage on unreliable infrastructures. (including compute and network)Agile Methodologies – Have familiarity with how to work and interact within an Agile team.Basic Qualifications for Principal Engineer: 7 or more years of experience in industry performing a variety of technical and leadership rolesBachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalentOther Qualifications: Core Technical/Engineering RequirementsNOTE: The following are examples of specific technical items that can be swapped with equivalent technologies. The interviewer will be able to distinguish between related technologies and be able to determine how the candidates technical experience matches with the necessary technical skills to perform the job.IaaS technology – AWS/Azure/GCP – Full Understanding and ability to construct a complete cloud infrastructure composed of compute, storage (object/block), network, database, interfacing services, security rules, containers, and container management technology (CNCF). Candidate should have familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, puppet/chef/ansible, helm, k8s etc.Core Coding Experience – Highly proficient in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java, or Python. Ability to transfer tacit knowledge of one language to another within a reasonable period. Reference-able work on Opensource projects within GitHub are a plus.Architecture type experience – Strong familiarity with various architecture types from SOA, MSA, Monolithic. Ability to design, code, contribute to applications that require high degrees of availability, fault tolerance, and can provide spanned coverage on unreliable infrastructures. (including compute and network)Stakeholder Analysis – Ability to interview and form relationships with our engineering and management customers to satisfy their needs and deliver functional software in a timely manner.Agile Methodologies – Have familiarity with how to work and interact within an Agile team.