1 day ago
Base Salary
$148k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and high-throughput data ingestion pipelines with sub-second query performance.
- Extend distributed tracing and telemetry for agentic execution paths, tool calls, and LLM reasoning workflows using OpenTelemetry and OTLP.
- Optimize query performance and data retention across ClickHouse, Grafana Tempo, and Apache Iceberg.
- Build high-performance gRPC and REST APIs for MCP framework integrations and Agent Ready Tools.
- Lead technical design and collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, SRE, Legal/Compliance, QA automation, and other teams on feature delivery.
- Contribute to technical specifications, runbooks, architecture documentation, CI/CD pipelines, load testing, and multi-region failover strategies.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for cross-functional pods.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development engineering experience, including at least 5+ years designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance.
- 5+ years writing production-grade code in at least two of Java, Go, Scala, or Python.
- Experience with data partitioning, dynamic sharding, vector retrieval, caching, high-throughput indexing, and sub-second queries over massive datasets.
- Experience with gRPC, REST, OTLP, object-oriented design, domain-driven design, and microservices architectures.
- Experience with distributed load and integration testing, telemetry-driven regression checks, CI/CD automation, and Git-based source control.
- Experience with enterprise security practices including mTLS, RBAC/ABAC, and encryption at rest and in transit.
- Ability to mentor engineers, technically lead cross-functional teams, and write architecture specifications, API contracts, runbooks, and agentic tracing documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Distributed Systems is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office options.
- Role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Workday provides comprehensive benefits, with additional details available during the hiring process.
Tech Stack
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.