# Software Engineer - Observability Platform

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Development-Engineer---US-Federal_JR-0109352?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data Platform and Observability team. The team is responsible for developing and operating a large-scale distributed data platform that fuels critically important Workday applications.

**Responsibilities:**

- Deploy services to EKS AWS in production environments using Terraform and Argo CD

- Ensure reliable operation of Metrics, Logging, Tracing, and Alerting services handling terabytes of data

- Collaborate with cyber defense team to ensure security operations and platform security health

- Participate in on-call rotation supporting the observability platform

- Resolve issues internal customers may have with our services

- Write technical documentation such as ADRs, RCAs, and runbooks

- Collaborate with managers and engineers to ensure healthy engineering practices

- Build out test environments, tooling, and automation to implement CI/CD best practices

- Construct new metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards

**Requirements:**

- BS in Computer Science or related technical field

- Minimum 5 years of experience building and deploying highly-scalable software

- Experience deploying software to public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

- Experience with scripting skills in any programming language

- Understanding of system design, particularly distributed systems

- Good knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes

- Experience with Linux-based system administration

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Demonstrable experience with Prometheus and Grafana Mimir

- Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes, Fluent Bit, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

- Strong DevOps knowledge and hands-on experience with IaC and CI/CD tools

## Skills

### Required
- Terraform
- Argo CD
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Python
- AWS

### Nice to have
- Prometheus
- Grafana Mimir
- Fluent Bit
- Kafka
- Elasticsearch

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