Manager Site Reliability Engineer

Workday

Hybrid (minimum of 50% time in-office each quarter)
3+ years leading sre or database engineering teams
8+ years software systems engineering experience
Database internals tuning and query optimization
Workday is seeking a Manager for their Site Reliability Engineering team to lead efforts in ensuring high performance and availability of their database infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE or Database Engineering and a passion for automating processes and leveraging cloud-native solutions

Job Summary

  • The role involves leading a visionary team to replace manual database interventions with automated, self-healing platforms.
  • Candidates must have extensive experience managing thousands of production databases across multiple data centers and public clouds.
  • Workday offers a flexible work model requiring at least 50% time in-office or field per quarter while supporting remote home office roles.

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Workday is seeking a Manager for their Site Reliability Engineering team to lead efforts in ensuring high performance and availability of their database infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE or Database Engineering and a passion for automating processes and leveraging cloud-native solutions.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 3+ years leading SRE or Database Engineering teams
  • 8+ years software 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 stacks

Nice-to-have

  • Passion for Open-Source and Cloud Native solutions
  • Fostering culture of psychological safety
  • Experience with self-healing platforms
  • Deep-dive troubleshooting in Linux internals
  • Strong Agile/Scrum and Continual Improvement Process

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

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