Workday

Principal Software Development Engineer (Data Engineering)

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2 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$173k - $310k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain systems for data ingestion, discoverability, governance, derivation, and serving.
  • Develop scalable service endpoints for retrieving data.
  • Deliver services from code development through production deployment.
  • Design, maintain, and improve sophisticated object-oriented software.
  • Operate production services, including logging, monitoring, metrics, production triage, and on-call support.
  • Apply testing, feature toggles, and canary deployment practices.
  • Collaborate with teammates to deliver data engineering and machine learning platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • BSc or MSc in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of proficiency in at least two of Java, Scala, and Python.
  • 6+ years of experience in data engineering or related fields.
  • Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services, including AWS or GCP.
  • Experience with at least one of Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Avro, Apache Kafka, or Apache Flink.
  • Experience with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for production delivery.
  • Experience with scalable service endpoints, observability technologies, sophisticated object-oriented software, and production operations.
  • Understanding of operating system concepts, performance and scale, security, availability, deployment, and operations.
  • Experience with unit, system/integration, and end-to-end testing, TDD, feature toggles, and canary deployments.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary ranges are $182,400-$273,600 for the primary Atlanta location and $173,300-$309,600 for additional US locations.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flexible work requires spending at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office roles also able to gather in Workday offices.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsKibanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonScalaTerraform

Categories

Data Engineering
Workday

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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