1 day ago
Base Salary
$124k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, code, deploy, and maintain production microservices and streaming pipelines for analytics and agentic engines.
- Build scalable REST and gRPC APIs integrating MCP tools, LLM workflows, and observability frameworks.
- Optimize high-throughput data ingestion, indexing, and query execution across ClickHouse and distributed event streams.
- Write unit, integration, and distributed load tests and support CI/CD automation.
- Monitor, triage, and resolve production issues to maintain high availability and low latency across global customer tenants.
- Author API specifications, component designs, operational runbooks, and other technical documentation.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, SRE, and Legal/Compliance teams on reliable, globally scaled features.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development engineering experience designing, developing, and deploying production software and distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience with Python, Java, Go, or Scala.
- Knowledge of data partitioning, event-driven streaming, columnar query optimization, and microservice state management.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, OTLP, object-oriented design, and modular API architecture.
- Understanding of unit and integration testing, telemetry-based performance monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, Git, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, and Apache Kafka or Spark pipelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong collaboration, technical writing, design documentation, API contract, integration guideline, and runbook skills.
Benefits
- Flexible work model with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
- May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus/commission and annual refresh stock grants.
- Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants.
Tech Stack
Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSClickHouseDockerGitGitHub ActionsGogRPCJavaJenkinsKubernetesPythonScala
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Workday
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.