Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer - Data Hub

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About the Team

Datahub is an AI/MLOps centered Data engineering team and our goal is to ingest, compute, and surface data driving key Workday applications across the company.

About the Role

In this role, you will contribute to a cloud ops platform that enables ingestion of data from internal and external producers, computes and aggregate meaningful, curated data sets, the surfaces these sets to Workday Front-End components or as embedded contextual data for AI/ML inference generation and agentic workflows.

We utilize technologies like Kubernetes, Spark, Python, Java, XO, Terraform, Kubernetes, Iceberg, EMR, and Sagemaker.

About You

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Basic Qualifications (Senior Software Engineer):

• 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems or a related field
• 3+ years proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Python
• 3+ years in cloud engineering or related field(s)
• Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with at least one of these data engineering technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes, Terraform AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Basic Qualifications (Software Engineer):

• 3+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems or a related field
• 3+ years proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Python
• 3+ years in cloud engineering or related field(s)
• Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with at least one of these data engineering technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes, Terraform AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Other Qualifications:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience in delivering a service from writing code to deploying in production: continuous integration (Jenkins), virtualisation (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, Terraform)
• Experience utilizing AI-Code Generation tools such as ClaudeCode, Windsurf, Cursor etc
• Experience creating scalable service endpoints to retrieve data
• Track record of working with logging, monitoring, metrics, stats technologies, such as: Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Hive, etc
• Proficient collaborating with teammates to design, maintain and improve sophisticated object-oriented software following clean code standard methodology;
• A testing/quality approach - unit, system/integration and end-to-end testing, TDD, feature toggles, and canary deployments
• Exposure to operating system concepts covering memory and storage, threading and concurrency, networking and sockets, and process management
• An understanding and experience with topics related to performance and scale, security, availability, deployment and operations
• Experience being responsible for a service in production with experience of production triage and on-call

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on m…