Sr. Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)
$96,000–$144,000 year
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Dublin, Leinster, IrelandOn-siteFull Time$96,000–$144,000 yearSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services including Kafka, Redis, and RabbitMQ across private, public, and sovereign cloud environments. Develop and maintain core software modules for streaming, messaging, and caching while constructing observability modules and automation for dashboard lifecycle management. Build, deploy, and operate infrastructure components in production, managing and optimizing Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP, and private clouds. Participate in the on-call rotation to support platform resiliency and operational excellence, championing new open-source and cloud-native tools as needed.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following: Java/Scala, Golang
- 4+ years of distributed systems experience
- 3+ years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed NoSQL & messaging systems
- 1+ year of leading a NoSQL technology related product right from conception to deployment and maintenance
- Consistent track record of technical project leadership and success involving collaborators and interested partners across the enterprise
- expertise in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load
- hands-on experience with atleast one or more distributed systems technologies like Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra
- experience learning complex open source service internals via code inspection
- extensive experience with modern software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile
- expertise with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD
- experience with Linux system internals and tuning
- experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization
- strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background
- Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms
- Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP & Private cloud env
- Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc
- Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc)
- Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching
- Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services
- Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments
- Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence
- Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed
- Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc
- Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc)
- Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching
- Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services
- Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments
- Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence
- Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed
- Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms
- Manage and optimize Workday distributed services in AWS, GCP & Private cloud env
Desired Qualifications
- Candidates with experience supporting EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV) or other regulated cloud environments are highly preferred
- Experience in the following areas is desirable: Operating production workloads in sovereign, government, or regulated cloud environments
- Managing Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ in environments with strict data residency, compliance, and security requirements
- Implementing platform security controls, including IAM, RBAC, TLS, encryption, certificate management, and secrets management
- Supporting compliance initiatives such as GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar regulatory frameworks
- Collaborating with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to prepare for audits and maintain operational compliance
- Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience for mission-critical distributed platforms
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