Director of Engineering

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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, its what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journeyBring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Data Platform & Observability Engineering organization is responsible for providing core data platforms, analytics platforms and observability services at Workday. Our focus is on the development of large scale distributed systems to support mission critical Workday applications both in private and public cloud. We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering with expertise in Distributed Systems, who will build and lead a team of Software Engineers.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and technical leader in this space. You are a high potential technology leader who understands technical and business realities and can articulate both near-term and long-term perspectives and be able to execute your vision. You have a track record in the delivery of software products with proven experience in building, managing and motivating a strong team of software engineers responsible for developing and deploying web-scale, SaaS-based solutions according to customer and business requirements.

About the Role

• In this highly technical role, you will help drive and execute the mission of Workday s distributed data systems that power our products

• Responsible for leading, motivating and developing engineering teams. Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering teams.

• Lead the adoption of practices like service ownership, shift-left testing, DevOps, Secure Coding life cycle, continuous delivery, SRE, and software defined everything

• Ensure that the platforms operate at a very high degree of reliability and resiliency by focussing on monitoring/observability, automation, capacity planning, performance testing etc.

• Deliver amazing platform engineering outcomes through your teams in areas of ownership, building reliable, scalable, and highly performant services and features using industry best practices

About You

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in high scale technology organizations(preferably in SaaS/PaaS) with demonstrated technical and business acumen. Must have demonstrated software development experience delivering new products to market

• Bring a people centric approach to leadership. Must have been a Manager of Managers. Must be good at mentoring leaders and engineers

• Experience with distributed systems, MPP databases, compilers. Must have hands-on experience with a few technologies like Elasticsearch, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra etc.

• Expertise in virtualization and container orchestration technologies(OpenStack, Docker/Kubernetes etc)

• You also bring an SRE mindset to the engineering team and strive to achieve operational excellence of the Platform. You bring rigor around all aspects of Service Ownership.

• Deep understanding and commitment to software engineering principles/processes (e.g. Lean, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, TDD) and continuous improvement through measurement

• An ideal candidate will have exceptional presentation skills and be motivated to participate at speaking engagements, industry forums and conferences.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field or relevant experience

Other Qualifications

• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancers and DNS

• Development and software management on Linux systems and good knowledge of Linux kernel internals.

• Deep working experience on at least one public cloud (GCP/AWS)

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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