Manager Site Reliability Engineer

Workday

Hybrid (at least 50% of time in-office per quarter)
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 Site Reliability Engineer to lead its Database Reliability Engineering team, focusing on architecting resilient data infrastructure for large-scale applications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in managing database environments and a passion for automation and cloud-native solutions

Job Summary

  • This role involves leading a visionary team to replace manual database interventions with automated, self-healing platforms.
  • The company is a Fortune 500 leader in AI platform technology focused on integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm.
  • Candidates must have extensive experience managing thousands of production databases across multiple data centers and public clouds.

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Workday is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineer to lead its Database Reliability Engineering team, focusing on architecting resilient data infrastructure for large-scale applications. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in managing database environments and a passion for automation and cloud-native solutions.

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 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
  • 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

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