Sr Principal, Software Development Engineer

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That's why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don't need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Our Technology Services organization is growing fast and we are looking for Software Engineers to join our team. We want passionate developers who love technology, upward mobility and want to make an impact.

To support the phenomenal growth in the number of Workday customers, we are building a core team to design and develop a new platform and tools that will accelerate and ease adoption of Workday's solution in our customer's business.

Our target users are consultants and technical partners who set-up a new customer in the Workday application. A major task includes migrating data from their existing landscape into the Workday cloud.

About the Role

We are looking for a person to take on a senior / Principal technical role. The right candidate will put the customer first, understand their user stories and will identify ways to build and run the Public Cloud version of Workday, ensuring stability and ability to scale and meeting the needs both of our customers and other Workday technical teams. If you are a team player and mentor, are passionate about evolving the solutions that you deliver and you would like to add an important component into Workday's leading cloud-hosted architecture, please contact us.

What a Software Engineer for our Technology Services team does at Workday?

• Architecture, designing, development and ownership of critical platform services. These modules are the building blocks that help make our software great.
• Innovation and solving problems are always on our mind; our engineers are constantly evolving our systems and are motivated to rapidly deliver features to production.
• Collaboration is the key to success. Our small teams allow our Engineers to come up with quick and exciting solutions.

About You

Are you a hardworking, creative and driven team member who can support us in our mission to gracefully support our devops and CI/CD teams?

If yes, We would love to hear from you! If you like trying new techniques and approaches to sophisticated problems, love to learn new technologies, are a natural collaborator and a phenomenal teammate who brings out the best in everyone around you, then give us a shout!

We are hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for this role with the following skills and experience of the candidate

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of software and systems delivery experience
• 10+ years of Production knowledge of at least one of Go/Python
• 10+ years of Scripting knowledge in Python/Ruby/Linux Scripting
• 7+ years of Experience with Kubernetes (managing Kubernetes clusters, developing microservices to run on Kubernetes)
• 8+ years of Development and Operations experience of large distributed architecture applications on a Public Cloud platform (AWS/GCP)
• 8+ years of Experience and familiarity working with CI/CD tools

Other Qualifications:

• Storage, Networking, Systems and Operations experience on a Public Cloud platform
• Experience in Agile environments/Agile development methodologies
• Continuous Delivery experience, owning your service through to production.
• Experience with ArgoCD and Tekton.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or similar
• Experience mentoring and building a strong technical team

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