Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade systems
  • 4+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems on public or private clouds
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, fault tolerance, high availability, and failure-mode analysis
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to Haves

  • Interest or experience building MCP servers, agent-facing APIs, or tooling to help engineers and AI systems operate complex platforms (Agentic Engineering)
  • Experience with Prometheus-style monitoring ecosystems, time-series metrics pipelines, or large-scale observability platforms in production
  • Strong proficiency in Go for production services; experience with Python for tooling, automation, data processing, or ML workloads
  • Experience designing and implementing robust, scalable HTTP and gRPC APIs in multi-tenant environments
  • Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes using infrastructure-as-code and platform configuration workflows (Helm, Jsonnet, Terraform, GitOps-style pipelines)
  • Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for distributed systems
  • Demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end, work closely with SRE and partner engineering teams, and mentor other engineers
  • Excellent written communication skills for architecture designs, operational runbooks, and technical documentation

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design, build, and debug distributed systems across cloud-native production environments
  • Develop platform services for metrics ingestion, processing, and alerting at scale
  • Shape how AI agents interact with observability infrastructure through tooling, APIs, and operational workflows
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver infrastructure that is resilient, observable, and easy to operate

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive base salary range (€96,000 EUR - €144,000 EUR in Ireland)
  • Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus
  • Annual stock grants awarded by Workday Inc.
  • Flexible work approach combining in-person and remote time with at least 50% time in office or field per quarter
  • Company culture rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm
  • Support for growth, skill development, and long-term investment in employees
  • Commitment to equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during application and employment
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