Performance Software Development Engineer (workday)

Job Description

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 OMSPERFENG team of performance engineers and software engineers works in close alignment with back-end development teams to ensure our services are successful and reliable at scale. The team develops performance monitoring/test-bed tools and employs those tools to evaluate the performance and efficiency of our back-end services. Our projects include internal tooling for performance/scalability evaluations/regression and certifications, such as driving workload execution, service data collection and metrics generation for automated system analysis and monitoring. Our team is also involved in design discussions with other teams, ensuring performance and reliability is baked into our software architecture.

About the Role

We are looking for a well rounded engineer with a blend of software engineering and performance engineering experience. The role would be around 80% Development and 20% Performance Engineering

Basic Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant commercial experience
• Software development experience (Java / Python / Groovy etc.)
• Familiarity with development and CICD pipeline tools such as GIT, IntelliJ, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with Performance engineering and system profiling 
• Performance test planning, setup, and execution
• Good knowledge of Java ergonomics and GC behavior
• UNIX or Linux experience
• Automation skills (using Python / Shell scripting etc.)
• Good Knowledge of SQL and No-SQL databases
• Good understanding of cloud architecture (AWS / GCP )
• Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze results, and diagnose problems

Other Requirements:

• Experience with JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar
• Knowledge of Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing
• Experience in Time series databases (eg. Influxdb)
• Experience with JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools sar/nmon/top
• Experience in using visualization tools (eg. Grafana / Cloudwatch etc.)
• Understanding of application and architecture code profiling
   

About You

• You have a passion for software development and relish delivering scalable solutions.
• You love to address problems with code and prove it through automated tests
• You advocate for performance testing in SDLC
• You have excellent written and oral communication skills
• You are a collaborative teammate
• You are continuously growing your skills
   

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.

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