Workday

Technology

SrPostgreSQLEngineer

€95–135k ~AI est. Dublin, Ireland FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Sr PostgreSQL Engineer at Workday. Skills: PostgreSQL, Database optimization, Database sharding. Scale database infrastructure. Optimize database infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Pragmatic solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, Planning and provisioning database instances, Commercial experience managing PostgreSQL database performance, Proven database deployment experience, PostgreSQL development experience in a scaled environment

Nice to Have

Familiar with related tooling, Suggest related tooling, Working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters, Working with teams that use ORMs, Working with teams that use other application framework

What You'll Do.

Scale database infrastructure

Optimize database infrastructure

Shard database infrastructure

Predict required capacity

Help DevOps provision capacity

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

DevOps teams

Full 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** 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 i

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