Sr Software Development Engineer page is loaded## Sr Software Development Engineerremote type: Flexlocations: Ireland, Dublintime type: Full Timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR-0102382**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**You would be joining a team that is responsible for a wide range of tasks to ensure stability, performance and scalability of our systems and engineering practices. Lately we have been busy working on our codebase modularisation and ensuring we have a durable, self-healing background processing system just to name a few. We face daily challenges with problems that do not have obvious or simple solutions. We are excited to meet team members that are self-sufficient and purpose driven and able to align to the business goals and long term strategic direction.**About the Role**You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing. This role requires a person that :* understands database performance and our current workloads* has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server* is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)* Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)* predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.We are also interested to hear about:* working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters* working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework**About You*** 5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances* You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)* You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems* You find opportunities to teach others* You are a team player, you motivate your teammates* You are responsible, helpful, and kind.* You seek innovative solutions to problems.**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.At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. 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