Manager Site Reliability Engineer

Workday

Hybrid (50% in-office quarterly)
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 their Database Reliability Engineering team, focusing on architecting resilient data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in database management and SRE, with a passion for automation and cloud-native solutions

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 a culture rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm for tackling big challenges.
  • Candidates must have extensive experience managing thousands of production databases across multiple data centers, public clouds, and geographies.

Matching Summary

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Workday is seeking a Manager Site Reliability Engineer to lead their Database Reliability Engineering team, focusing on architecting resilient data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in database management and SRE, with 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
  • Culture of psychological safety and high performance
  • Deep-dive troubleshooting in Linux internals
  • Experience reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)

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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