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.