Software Development Engineer

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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Welcome to the Big Data Services team! We are responsible for the big data platform at Workday on both on-premise and public cloud. We provide highly available and scalable data services related to persistence, compute and enterprise security.

Our services enable Workday to quickly and efficiently scale to meet the needs of our multi-billion-dollar customer base. We are crucial to the Workday Analytics family of products. We power reporting, analytics, machine learning, and other data-centric applications. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we do things.

About the Role

The Workday Big Data Services (BDS) team is seeking enthusiastic, innovative, experienced, self-motivated engineers to design and implement best in class solutions in one of the biggest hybrid-cloud environments on Earth. The successful candidate will be responsible for ​designing, developing, troubleshooting and debugging distributed software programs for enhancements and new products across multiple disciplines and multiple platforms. Capable of designing and implementing software able to manage the tradeoffs between data consistency, availability, partition tolerance. Develop, design and deploy software and tools in support of a data processing system, including highly concurrent transaction processing, distributed memory management, communication protocols, and efficient distributed data algorithms.

We're committed to your career growth. If you are willing to bring your experience and passion to make this role a success, our commitment is to continue to develop your skill set and foster your success in this role and in your career at Workday.

In this role you will:

• Rapidly build new applications and automate operations 

• Modernize our on-premise Hadoop infrastructure to provide public cloud-like services

• Work on multiple types of software development including REST services, logging/monitoring, and DevOps.

• Collaborate with other team members to deliver innovative tools that solve challenging problems

• Improve our teams technical capabilities by applying cutting-edge technologies

• Serve in an on-call rotation for handling urgent production issues

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of Java software engineering experience

• 3+ years of distributed systems engineering experience

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and likes to solve problems

• Bachelor's Degree or higher. A Computer Science degree is preferable.

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skill

 

Other Qualifications

• Good understanding of how Hadoop/Spark cluster works

• Familiar with distributed computing design patterns

• Experience managing deployments with Kubernetes and Docker container

• General knowledge about public cloud capabilities and architecture

• Expertise in architecting and developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load

• mentoring and coaching experience

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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