About the Role
You will have an opportunity to
* Develop a deep understanding of Workday’s industry leading products and work with talented internal engineering teams to help them deploy to a multi-cloud environment using modern cloud-native orchestration, deployment and monitoring technology
* Work with the upstream community to improve and optimise Istio and Envoy for large scale, high uptime deployments
* Use Istio Service Mesh to deliver innovative service connectivity features to internal services allowing high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades and continuous deployment
* Help create a centre of excellence for Cloud networking technologies in the Platforms organisation: Ingress, Egress and Service Mesh
* Work closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with the needs of the business
About You
Software Development Engineer
Basic Qualifications
* 3+ years experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Senior Software Development Engineer
Basic Qualifications
* 5+ years experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)
* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Other Qualifications
* Experience with running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions)
* Experience designing and building a microservice architecture
* Deep knowledge of and experience with Linux
* Familiar with Service mesh technologies, ideally Istio / Envoy
* Ability to communicate effectively to different customers (product management, team mates, external teams using our platform)
* Experience working in an Agile environment/ with Agile development methodologies
* Experience developing automation solutions
* Experience with a public cloud platform: AWS, GCP, Azure
* Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, configuration management
* Knowledge of standard methodologies for Cloud Native infrastructure management and operations
* Knowledge of CI / CD principles and standard processes