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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.\nAbout the Team\nThe MIA team owns Workday's primary time-series monitoring and alerting platform, a very high scale distributed service supporting all engineering teams and data centres worldwide.\nThe team is entirely based in Dublin and operate under a DevOps model whereby we build, deploy, maintain and support our services.\nAbout the Role\nYou will help run and evolve monitoring platform, at very large scale alongside a highly collaborative team of talented engineers.\nYou will own technical direction on the hardest problems we face in order to support AI driven demand: ingestion resilience, write & read performance, API hardening, security compliance, budget management in a high growth demand, etc.\nYou will also lead designs and RCAs, and mentor mid-level engineers.\nWhat we're looking for:\nSolid DevOps and operations experience, including CI/CD, automation, on-call, and incident response.\nFamiliarity with observability tooling and practices such as metrics, alerting, SLOs, and dashboards.\nA good grasp of distributed systems: scaling, resilience, and failure modes.\nClear communication and the ability to guide design decisions.\nproficiency at leveraging AI enhancing engineering tooling and processes\nMajor plus:\nKubernetes\nPython\nGo\nPrometheus/ Grafana ecosystems\nAbout You\nBasic Qualification\n8+ years experience in software development engineering.\n4+ years experience designing and developing distributed system components, demonstrating knowledge of principles such as consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.\nBachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nOther Qualification\nDemonstrated ability in Algorithmic Thinking to design efficient and scalable solutions.\nSolid experience with API Development\nGood understanding of Code Testing methodologies and experience with doing so in a distributed environment.\nStrong understanding of Distributed Systems Software principles.\nWorking knowledge of High Availability strategies and their implementation in distributed systems.\nExperience with Large Scale Data Processing technologies and frameworks such as Kafka within a distributed architecture.\nGood understanding of Large Scale Systems design principles.\nGood understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their application in building modular and maintainable distributed components.\nWorking experience with Source Control Management (SCM) tools such as GHE and branching strategies for collaborative distributed development.\nBasic understanding of System Security principles and best practices relevant to distributed environments.\nProven ability in Team Collaboration within a distributed software development team.\nGood skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation for technical proposals, knowledge shares and user documentation.\nWorkday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)\nListed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. 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 awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.\nPrimary Location Base Pay Range: €96,000 EUR - €144,000 EUR IrelandOur Approach to Flexible Work\nWith 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.\nPursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nWorkday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.\nWorkday 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. 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