Software Development Engineer at Workday
Chennai, tamil nadu, India -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

19 Feb, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Object Oriented Programming, JVM Language, Distributed Systems, Micro Services Architecture, Concurrency, Application Code Profiling, Performance Tuning, Observability Stack, ELK, Grafana, Splunk, Cloud Deployment, Unix, Linux, AWS, Azure

Industry

Software Development

Description
Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team The Resiliency Engineering Team at Workday is a dynamic and innovative group focused on ensuring the performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and overall resiliency of Workday's complex distributed computing environment and multi-cloud infrastructure. Embracing change and thriving in uncharted territories, the team tackles challenges related to these critical areas to deliver an optimal customer experience. This team plays a crucial role in triaging performance, scale, and resiliency issues, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions. They are also instrumental in building and maintaining a suite of internal tools that empower various business requirements. These tools facilitate log gathering and diagnosis, load test execution and interpretation, and the simplified analysis of big data through notebooks, among other use cases. By developing these capabilities, the team enables all of Workday's applications and services to proactively own and deliver performance and scalability at various levels. Furthermore, the team actively influences development practices by highlighting the importance of addressing performance bottlenecks. They meticulously triage and identify the root causes of recurring issues, quantifying the impact on customers and system resources with data-driven insights. They also assist other teams in analyzing the performance implications of new features, services, and microservices before their deployment. Committed to continuous improvement, the Resiliency Engineering Team constantly seeks opportunities to enhance performance within the organization and align with broader company goals. About the Role Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment Collaborate with Engineers, Sr Engineers and technical product managers to analyze functional requirements, devise architecture designs that provide real scalability, low latency, and high availability. Be responsible for system performance and stability by proactively identifying and diagnosing issues and rapidly identifying root causes to address production issues. Characterize Performance, Scalability and Resiliency to stakeholders Participate in escalations to drive the technical conversations About You Basic Qualifications: 3+ years experience in application development or cloud related technologies Experience in object oriented programming experience in a JVM language Experience with operations and Scalability study of large scale distributed systems. Experience with micro services architecture or Distributed Programming, Memory, concurrency of software solutions Experience in Application code profiling and performance tuning Experience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana, Splunk Experience in Cloud Deployment and cloud technologies Superb written and verbal communication skills. Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field Additional Qualifications: Unix or Linux experience Public Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Open source project contributions Experience in Agile development methodologies Data Science: jupyter notebooks, python, pandas Public Cloud Technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud SQL skills or equivalent experience Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing Experience with Automation and profiling tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, Jmeter, Loadrunner, Gatling, JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/top Web Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST) Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. 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Individuals seeking employment at Workday are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We do not accept resumes from headhunters, placement agencies, or other suppliers that have not signed a formal agreement with us. You may view the Workday's Pay Transparency Policy, and Know Your Rights Notice, by clicking on their corresponding links. 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Responsibilities
The role involves collaborating with engineers to design scalable, low-latency, and highly available architecture based on functional requirements. Responsibilities also include proactively identifying and diagnosing system performance and stability issues, rapidly finding root causes for production problems, and characterizing performance metrics to stakeholders.
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