Senior Manager - Data SRE

Your work days are brighter here.

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

The Data Platform and Observability team is based in Pleasanton, Boston and Dublin, Ireland. We enable real time insights across Workday’s applications. Our focus is on the development of a large scale data platform to support critical workday applications. Our platform helps the workday applications to be highly available and derive insights into data with highly efficient utilization of data services.
The team provides software for collection and storage of critical data assets. We handle Petabytes of data in the form of trillions of messages produced monthly and millions of messages/sec in our stream processing pipeline. In our world every optimization and millisecond gained matters. If you enjoy writing efficient software that scales or tuning and scaling large distributed systems you will enjoy working with us.
Do you want to work on demonstrating Workday’s vast computing resources with its rich and extensive datasets? To work with extraordinary engineers and facilitate the development of the data platform? If so, we should chat.

About the Role

• Lead, hire and build the Data SRE team.
• Partner closely with the service/platform owners to drive a culture of Operational Excellence
• Build, deploy, lead and support various engineering environments - Data Lakehouse, Document stores, Timeseries data stores, Distributed Query engines, Analytics tools, API’s & micro services.
• Build a 7x24 follow the sun model for supporting all Observability and data analytics platforms.
• Drive SLO/SLIs with service owners and build appropriate dashboards, alerts etc
• Be metrics and data driven - reduce operational workload and complexity.

About You

Are you a hardworking, creative and driven team member who can support us in our mission to gracefully support our Data Platform and Observability 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!

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar STEM field
• Proven experience (7 yrs) in Data SRE field managing complex distributed analytical platforms
• Experience in hiring and building Data SRE teams
• Experience with developing software in one or more programming/scripting languages (Java, Python, Go etc.)
• Experience managing large-scale data platforms that use Spark, Kafka, Hadoop etc.
• Experience managing and administrative knowledge of large backend systems like Elasticsearch, Kafka, KV stores etc.
• Experience using Automation tools such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible etc.

Other Qualifications

• Experience in Networking a big plus
• You also bring an operational mindset to the engineering team and strive to achieve operational excellence of the Platform.
• An ideal candidate will have exceptional presentation skills and be motivated to participate at speaking engagements, industry forums and conferences.

#LI-MH5

As a federal contractor, Workday is requiring all new hires to verify that they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 within 72 hours of beginning employment with Workday, consistent with applicable law. Workday is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are not vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally-protected reason should contact accommodations@workday.com to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations or exemptions Workday is able to offer.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The base pay range for the primary location of this job is listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. 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. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, future potential and internal pay parity.For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.PleasantonBase Pay Min to Max Range: $211,200 - $316,800

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Summary

• Location: USA, CA, Pleasanton
• Type: Full Time