Sr. Associate Software Development Engineer - Big Data Services

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About the Team

Welcome to the Big Data Services team! We are responsible for the Big Data Platform that serves Workday analytics and machine-learning applications running in our private data centers, AWS, and GCP. We provide a highly-available, highly-scalable data services platform 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 Platform team is seeking enthusiastic, innovative, self-motivated engineers to craft and implement outstanding solutions in one of the biggest hybrid-cloud environments on Earth. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting our fault-tolerant, high-performance platform for data analytics.

In this role you will:

• Develop scalable solutions for both Workday private data centers and public cloud

• Rapidly build new applications and automate operations on one of the largest big data clusters on Earth

• 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

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 your career at Workday.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in software development engineering, preferably within a SaaS environment.

• 2+ years of distributed systems engineering experience, primarily in Java and Python

Other Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of the following: Scala, Python, Ruby

• Knowledge of enterprise security, encryption at-rest and in-motion, authentication and authorization

• Good understanding of how Hadoop/Spark clusters work

• Familiar with distributed computing design patterns

• Familiar with agentic software development

• Experience deploying to Kubernetes and Docker

• General knowledge about public cloud capabilities and architecture

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Workday Pay Transparency Statement 

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  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 multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: CAN.BC.Vancouver

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $92,000 - $138,000 CAD

Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $92,000 - $138,000 CAD

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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