Database Development Engineer

3 days ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Workday Full time

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Database Engineering team at Workday designs, builds, develops, maintains and supervises database infrastructure, ensuring that all of Workday's data related needs are met with dedication and scale, while providing high availability that our customers expect from Workday.

We are a fast paced and diverse team of database specialists and software engineers responsible for designing, automating, managing and running the databases on Private and Public Cloud Platforms. We are looking for individuals who have strong experience in backend development specializing in database as a service with deep experience in Open Source database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud Native database technologies.

This role will suit someone who is adaptable, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. We would love to hear from you if you have hands-on experience in designing, developing and managing enterprise level database systems with complex interdependencies and have a key focus on high-availability, clustering, security, performance and scalability requirements

About the Role

Are you passionate about database technologies? Do you love to solve complex, large-scale database challenges in the world today using code and as a service? If yes, then read on
- This position is responsible for architecting, designing, developing and managing Workday Database Infrastructure.
- Design and develop automation to improve the availability, scalability, and performance of databases running on multiple clouds.
- Keeps observability as a focus for all database monitoring and improve/implement auto remediation techniques.
- Provide support for large scale database instances across production, non-production and development environments
- Serve in an on-call rotation supporting database infrastructure
- Support regular upgrades and patches to maintain security vulnerabilities
- Support database scalability
- Partner with service and performance teams for continuous architecture improvements, resiliency, and performance.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years experience in designing/developing/automating and managing mission critical production workloads on MySQL, PostgreSQL, CloudSQL and other Cloud native databases.
- 3+ years of working experience in performance tuning of persistence layer
- 3+ years of experience in backend development using modern programming languages (Golang, Python, Java)
- Hands-on experience in Cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure
- Experience managing clustered, highly-available database services deployed on different flavors of Linux

Other Qualifications:

- Knowledge of automation tools such as Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
- Experience with database architecture, design,performance tuning, replication, clustering, HA/DR
- Working experience in modern DevOps technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.
- Familiarity with tools such as Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage
- Experience with different storage sub-systems such as NFS, SSD etc.
- Excellent debugging skills and ability to provide solutions.
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
- Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
- Excellent team player with extraordinary written & verbal communication skills.
- BS/MS degree in computer science.

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