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Sr Distributed Systems Engineer (DevOps)

Atlanta, GA
Full-Time

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. In an industry plagued by inefficient and ineffective contract management systems, we provide a solution that accelerates, scales, and protects the business, enabling contract professionals to become their company’s superhero.

We create innovative AI technology that makes contracts searchable and simplifies deal-making processes to supercharge business while helping to reduce costs and handle risk. We automate manual work, facilitate collaboration, and streamline operations so businesses can make better decisions.

By reimagining legal documents, we take the stress out of contract management, empowering brilliant people to do their best work while fueling exponential growth.

About the Role

As a Senior Distributed Systems (DevOps) engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.

About You

What will you be doing?

  • Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture

  • Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes.

  • Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level

  • Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers

  • Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second

  • Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS

  • Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)

  • Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones.

  • Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform

  • Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity

  • Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead

Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years DevOps experience

  • 5+ years database administration experience (Postgres, MariaDB, MSSQL)

  • 4+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.

  • 4+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.


Other Qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

  • Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible.

  • Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions.

  • Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)

  • Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code

  • Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes

  • Passion to optimize and automate.

  • Autoscaling and autohealing of infrastructure.

  • Strong hands on experience with the AWS ecosystem

  • Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters (circuit breaking, failure injection, retries and timeouts on the data-plane proxy level, canary deployments using weight based routing for pods and services, etc’).

  • Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting.

  • Experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB

  • Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka

  • A passion for automation and integrating with build systems such as GitHub, GitLab CI.

  • Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments.

  • Ability to quickly learn complex systems and environments, from the network through the application.


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta


Primary Location Base Pay Range: $165,900 USD - $248,800 USD


Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $157,600 USD - $279,900 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $165,900 - $248,800 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:

11/30/2025



Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. 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). 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.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

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.

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Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Our mission is to change the way business deals get done. In an industry plagued by inefficient and ineffective contract management systems, we provide a solution that accelerates, scales, and protects the business, enabling contract professionals to become their company’s superhero.

We create innovative AI technology that makes contracts searchable and simplifies deal-making processes to supercharge business while helping to reduce costs and handle risk. We automate manual work, facilitate collaboration, and streamline operations so businesses can make better decisions.

By reimagining legal documents, we take the stress out of contract management, empowering brilliant people to do their best work while fueling exponential growth.

About the Role

As a Senior Distributed Systems (DevOps) engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) and implement tools to automate maintenance and support our engineering environments. You will also work closely with our Platform Engineering team to deploy changes to our engineering environments with a view to enabling verification of these changes.

About You

What will you be doing?

  • Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture

  • Build and Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve their reliability & speed, and reduce lead time for changes.

  • Trace performance bottlenecks and identify optimizations and improvements at both the infrastructure and application level

  • Collaborate with our engineering team to meet high SLO and SLA requirements from customers

  • Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second

  • Closely collaborating with Developers to setup, configure and plan the necessary cloud services in support of new feature development on AWS

  • Securing our infrastructure at both the cloud layer (IAM) and application layer (PKI)

  • Building and expanding monitoring and alerting systems for both infrastructure and business operations, using internal tools & integrating into established 3rd party SaaS ones.

  • Establishing comprehensive infrastructure-as-code coverage to support our entire platform

  • Develop tools to enhance and support Developer Productivity

  • Champion automation of manual processes and reducing operational overhead

Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years DevOps experience

  • 5+ years database administration experience (Postgres, MariaDB, MSSQL)

  • 4+ years experience orchestrating large scale distributed microservice deployments on Kubernetes and EC2.

  • 4+ years experience building and managing EKS clusters and strong knowledge of the K8s ecosystem.


Other Qualifications

  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

  • Demonstrable experience in infrastructure as code frameworks, in particular with Terraform, and configuration management using Ansible.

  • Production experience in creating and maintaining cloud environments in AWS, spanning across multiple geographic regions.

  • Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Typescript)

  • Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code

  • Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes

  • Passion to optimize and automate.

  • Autoscaling and autohealing of infrastructure.

  • Strong hands on experience with the AWS ecosystem

  • Familiarity with service mesh concepts and experience implementing one of the service mesh frameworks like Istio or Linkerd with Kubernetes clusters (circuit breaking, failure injection, retries and timeouts on the data-plane proxy level, canary deployments using weight based routing for pods and services, etc’).

  • Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Cloudwatch metrics monitoring, ELK/OpenSearch stack for logging and PagerDuty and alerting.

  • Experience building, maintaining and scaling database technologies such as Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB

  • Experience troubleshooting and autoscaling message queueing clusters in a high availability cluster such as RabbitMQ, SQS or Kafka

  • A passion for automation and integrating with build systems such as GitHub, GitLab CI.

  • Security centric in all approaches to design in infra as code as well as Docker build pipelines and microservice deployments.

  • Ability to quickly learn complex systems and environments, from the network through the application.


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta


Primary Location Base Pay Range: $165,900 USD - $248,800 USD


Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $157,600 USD - $279,900 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $165,900 - $248,800 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:

11/30/2025



Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. 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). 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.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

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.

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About Workday


“We believe a supportive and inclusive workplace, where everyone feels valued and included, is the key to great products, happy customers, and an enduring.”
Carin Taylor
Workday Chief Diversity Officer

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Value inclusion, belonging, and equity.™

Our approach to diversity is simple: it’s about embracing everyone. From cultivating a culture where all employees can bring their best selves to work to deploying diversity initiatives that support all, we’re doing what it takes to build a more equitable workplace and world.

Diversity isn’t just a business imperative. It’s core to everything we do.

Our commitment to building a more equitable world shines through in our everyday practices. We hire and develop a diverse workforce, cultivate our employee-first culture, shape corporate policies, and invest in underrepresented communities around the world. And we’re just getting started.


How we’re creating a workplace for all:

  • We’ve signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge.
  • We’ve put our name on the Business Statement for Transgender Equality.
  • We signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge.

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