# Observability Platform Architect

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $261,800 USD - $392,600 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Sr-Principal-Architect---Observability_JR-0110234?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We're seeking an Observability Platform Architect to join our Data Platform and Observability Engineering team. You'll be responsible for the architecture, standards, and best practices for Observability at Workday.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide architectural leadership for Workday's Observability Platform and Services

- Drive Agentic experiences for incident detection, triage, and recovery

- Ensure a seamless Observability experience across data domains and infrastructure types

- Drive standardization of Observability tooling and develop standards

- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Technology Operations, and Product teams

- Promote and evangelize Observability to all Workday engineering teams

**Requirements:**

- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

- 10+ years of software engineering/architect background

- Proven track record of delivering high-quality products at massive scale

- Hands-on expertise in Observability platforms like Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger/Zipkin, etc.

- Extensive experience with data collection agents, loggers, and visualizing and correlating data sets

- Expertise in LLM orchestration framework, Observability for AI Agents, and low-latency/high-throughput data processing capabilities

**Nice to Have:**

- Open Source contributions to popular O11y frameworks and platforms

- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences

- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

**Salary Range:** $261,800 USD - $392,600 USD per year (primary location) $221,600 USD - $392,600 USD per year (additional US locations)

**Flexible Work:** We combine in-person time and remote work, requiring at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or in the field.

## Skills

### Required
- Observability
- Prometheus
- Mimir
- Elasticsearch
- Clickhouse
- VictoriaMetrics
- Jaeger/Zipkin
- LLM orchestration framework
- Data collection agents
- Loggers

### Nice to have
- Open Source contributions
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills

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