Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. 

That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Are you interested in writing software that brightens the day of millions of people around the globe? Workday’s Media Cloud team, builds tools and product experiences that help our customers unlock the power of media, enabling teams at companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Sony to communicate, learn, and inspire! 

Workday values are central to what we do, as a result you’ll enjoy a healthy work-life balance, access to a professional development budget and programs, and opportunities to innovate with regular hackathons and ongoing customer research!

About the Role

We’re looking for a skilled and driven engineer to join us in Victoria, BC to contribute to the systems and end-user experiences for uploading, encoding, and streaming media at scale. You’ll have an opportunity to work with a phenomenal multi-cultural team and various experts, to ship clean code and further an environment of learning and innovation.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer within the Media Cloud team, you will:

• Design and develop software and cloud-based infrastructure for an enterprise video service supporting media upload, processing, and playback at scale
• Deliver user focused, high quality and performant features while adeptly navigating and reducing complexity, making every effort to minimize risk
• Contribute to process and tooling improvements including systems for continuous integration and automated testing
• Own items from inception to delivery and seek to measure and understand how internal/external customers are using our products/services
• Write and maintain proven, robust, efficient and maintainable code in Python.
• Write reliable unit and integration tests that will run on our CD pipeline.
• Architect, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements
• Mentor and learn from other team members through pairing, code reviews, Hackathons, etc.
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About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing web applications and/or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products as part of a multi-functional team
• 4+ years of programming experience with Python, Java, JavaScript
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS services  (e.g. Lambda, S3, ECS)

Other Qualifications

• Experience communicating technical ideas across contexts and audiences that encourages dialogue, promotes shared understanding, and facilitates desired outcomes
• Experience with source control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
• Experience with JavaScript and related frameworks such as React
• Has experience developing multimedia or streaming video technologies
• Experience in delivering cloud-based web applications in AWS
• Familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Experience with test automation frameworks, build pipelines, continuous integration, deployment, and monitoring utilities.
• Proven ability to triage and resolve production issues
• Experience presenting complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences