Golang Job: Software Developer - Kubernetes Service Mesh

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Workday

Location

Dublin - Ireland

Job type

Full-Time

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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
Workday currently has a position open for a Software Developer: Kubernetes Mesh Networking in Cloud Platform Engineering.

To support Workday’s rapid growth, the Cloud Platform Engineering team is building a state-of-the-art multi-cloud platform to host thousands of customers seamlessly across public and private clouds.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to help develop and deploy service communication technologies to support existing and future networking needs for cloud native microservices and legacy services migrating to cloud. Resilience and scalability are the top priorities for our platform and this role will involve maximising the available solutions through thoughtful design, deployment and configuration, in addition to open source community participation and working closely with internal customers to understand the needs of their services.

The team operates as a software product team, using Scrum and DevOps practices to deliver the software solutions needed by our customers for seamless deployment to a true multi-cloud platform.

Our challenge is to meet the complex network connectivity, performance and security needs of our services, in a repeatable and predictable manner across our platform. To deliver these requirements at scale, with industry leading uptime and while minimising onboarding and operational friction.

The core technologies used by the Service Communication team today include Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy.

If you are passionate about cloud-native communication solutions and would like to play a key role in developing Workday's leading cloud-hosted architecture, we’d love to hear from you!
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
Other Qualifications

  • Experience with running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions)
  • Experience designing and building a microservice architecture
  • Significant knowledge of Linux
  • Familiar with Service mesh technologies, ideally Istio / Envoy
  • Ability to communicate effectively to different stakeholders (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 cloud platform: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, configuration management
  • Knowledge of best practices for Cloud Native infrastructure management and operations
  • Knowledge of CI / CD principles and best practices
  • Knowledge of Terraform

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
  • Significant knowledge of Linux
  • Familiar with Service mesh technologies, ideally Istio / Envoy
  • Ability to communicate effectively to different stakeholders (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 cloud platform: AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, configuration management
  • Knowledge of best practices for Cloud Native infrastructure management and operations
  • Knowledge of CI / CD principles and best practices
  • Knowledge of Terraform
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