Application Development: Performance Engineer - Payroll Workday, Inc.
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Performance Engineer, Payroll Application Development
Location: San Francisco, CA or Pleasanton, CA
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Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses. Our solutions combine the lower cost of ownership of SaaS with a modern approach to applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers Human Capital Management, Payroll, Financial Management and Worker Spend Management solutions for midsize and Fortune 500 companies.
Workday is looking for an outstanding Performance Engineer to join our Payroll Development team. Workday Payroll is a feature rich, high performing application that our enterprise-class customers rely on to pay their employees in a timely and efficient manner. As a Payroll performance engineer you need to be a highly skilled engineer who can debug, measure, analyze, and improve our application software. You will work closely with our Payroll, Absence Management, and Time Tracking development teams as well as our Tools development and performance engineering teams to ensure that our applications continue to meet our customersâ demands high scalability and performance.
Responsibilities/Experience/Skills/Education:
- Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and diagnose performance problems.
- Ability to clearly characterize system performance to stakeholders.
- Performance test planning, setup, and execution
- Test scripting and test data management
- Capacity estimating, modeling, or planning
- Application and architecture code profiling
- Infrastructure and application performance tuning
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Collaborative team player
Knowledge or Experience with the following a plus:
- Unix or Linux experience
- OO design and Java development experience.
- Payroll domain knowledge a plus
- Eclipse, Junit, ANT, svn
- SQL and mySQL skills or equivalent experience
- Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing
- Experience with SOAPUI, Wats, Jmeter, JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/top
- Web Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST)
- Note: This is a Engineer position not a QA role
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The Workday experience is the combination of everything that's unique about Workday: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our Development "Show and Tell" happy hours, our soccer team, our recognition programs, but most importantly it's our people. It's everything that makes us different from your average employer, and everything that makes Workday a great place to spend a work day.

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| Web Site: | www.workday.com |
| Headquarters: | 6230 Stoneridge Mall Rd.
Pleasanton, CA 94588
United States
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| Employees: | >100 |
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| Year Founded: | 2005 |
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| Industry: | Software |
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