Manager Site Reliability Engineer

Workday

Hybrid (minimum of 50% of time in-office or field)
3+ years leading sre or database engineering teams
8+ years software or systems engineering experience
Database internals tuning and query optimization
Workday is seeking a Manager for their Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on database reliability and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leading engineering teams, with a strong background in software and systems engineering, particularly within large-scale database environments

Job Summary

  • The role involves leading a visionary team to replace manual database interventions with automated, self-healing platforms.
  • Workday is a Fortune 500 company offering flexible work arrangements where employees spend at least half their time in the office or field.
  • The position requires managing thousands of production databases across multiple data centers, public clouds, and geographies.

Matching Summary

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Workday is seeking a Manager for their Site Reliability Engineering team, focusing on database reliability and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leading engineering teams, with a strong background in software and systems engineering, particularly within large-scale database environments.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 3+ years leading SRE or Database Engineering teams
  • 8+ years software or systems engineering experience
  • Database internals tuning and query optimization
  • Kubernetes Operators and stateful sets management
  • AWS RDS Aurora and GCP Cloud SQL experience
  • Prometheus Grafana Datadog observability stack implementation

Nice-to-have

  • Passion for Open-Source and Cloud Native solutions
  • Fostering culture of psychological safety
  • Deep-dive troubleshooting in Linux internals
  • Experience reducing Mean Time to Resolution
  • Mentoring senior engineers

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 4+ years as an SRE/DBRE designing resilient data infrastructure
  • 5+ years spearheading response for critical data outages

Work Rights

Not specified

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