Workday

Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

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Vancouver, Canada +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$176k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop data ingestion, discoverability, governance, derivation, and serving systems for machine learning and agentic initiatives.
  • Build scalable service endpoints for data retrieval and deliver services from code development through production deployment.
  • Work with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data engineering technologies, and machine learning-related data workflows.
  • Design, maintain, and improve sophisticated object-oriented software collaboratively.
  • Implement testing and quality practices including unit, system/integration, and end-to-end testing, feature toggles, and canary deployments.
  • Monitor and operate production services, including logging, metrics, performance, production triage, and on-call support.

Requirements

  • BSc or MSc in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or a related field.
  • 4+ years of proficiency in at least two of Java, Scala, and Python.
  • 4+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field.
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and managed services on AWS or GCP.
  • Experience with at least one of Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Avro, Apache Kafka, or Apache Flink.
  • Experience with production deployment using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
  • Experience with scalable service endpoints, monitoring and observability technologies, object-oriented software, testing, operating-system concepts, performance and scale, security, availability, deployment, and operations.
  • Experience owning a production service, including production triage and on-call.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field for applicable roles.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities, veterans, religious needs, or other applicable circumstances.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKibanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonScalaTerraform

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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