Workday

Workday

Sr. Principal Architect - Observability

USA, CA, Pleasanton · Principal

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About the role

  • This is a hands-on role, where you will be responsible for the architecture, standards, best practices for all things Observability at Workday.
  • You will spend your time by working closely with the Observability Platform engineers, product managers, stakeholders, evolving the platform architecture, contributing to the Observability platform and acting as an evangelist for the platform.
  • Here are some of the things you will be doing:

Responsibilities

  • Drive Agentic experiences for incident detection, triage, and recovery - by owning & driving the Observability MCP and Observability Agents.
  • Drive standardization of the Observability tooling, develop and publish standards, leverage open source specifications (OpenTelemetry etc)
  • Closely collaborate with the Infrastructure, Technology Operations & Product teams.
  • Our focus is on the development of large scale distributed data systems to support critical Workday products and provide real-time insights across Workday's platforms, infrastructure and applications.
  • Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

Requirements

  • Must have at least 10+ years of software engineering/architect background and a proven track record of delivering high quality products at massive scale
  • You have hands-on expertise in Observability platforms like Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger/Zipkin etc.
  • Extensive experience with data collection agents, loggers, and visualizing and correlating data sets from multiple domains.
  • Expertise in LLM orchestration framework(LangChain etc,), Observability for AI Agents(Latency, quality, online/offline evals, Track multi-turn conversations, tool/agent invocations etc)
  • You have deployed Observability across the OSI stack.
  • You have strong communication skills both written and verbal.
  • We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
  • Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree.

Nice to have

  • Expertise in low-latency/high throughput data processing capabilities a big plus.
  • Open Source contributions to popular O11y frameworks & platforms are a big plus.

Skills

  • Your work days are brighter here.

Compensation

  • $261,800 USD - $392,600 USD
  • $221,600 USD - $392,600 USD
  • In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.

Benefits

  • Our Approach to Flexible Work
  • This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.
  • Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Company info

  • Data Platform and Observability Engineering team empowers our customers and workmates with resilient, secure, massively scalable distributed systems, real-time observability, and operational analytics - enabling product innovation, faster problem resolution, seamless operations and data driven decisions.
  • The team provides platforms that process Petabytes of data that enable core Workday products and use cases like core HCM, Fins, AI/ML skus, internal data products and Observability.
  • If you enjoy writing efficient software or tuning and scaling large distributed systems you will enjoy working with us.
  • Do you want to tackle exciting challenges at massive scale across private and public clouds for our 10000+ global customers?
  • Do you want to work with world class engineers and facilitate the development of the next generation Distributed systems platforms?
  • If so, we should chat.

Equal opportunity

  • Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
  • Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
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