Senior Software Engineer, Workday
Data Platform, Spark & Trino
$151.2-226.8k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151.2-226.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software development experience in Java and/or Scala in Linux/Unix environment
- Experience operating large-scale distributed systems natively within public cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
- 3+ years in database internals, query processing, or distributed systems
- You have a BS in Computer Science or a related field with 5 years of experience, or an MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a relevant area, with 3 years of experience
- A strong grasp of SQL and distributed data processing engines (e.g., Apache Spark)
- Hands-on experience with Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) or Presto for executing fast, distributed SQL queries across large, heterogeneous data sources
- Proven experience architecting and tuning distributed systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and massive horizontal scale
- Experience implementing observability and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, JMX metrics) to monitor complex distributed workloads
- Industry experience building and delivering high-performance data processing engines
- Familiarity with AI coding tools like Cursor etc
- Experience leading or mentoring a team of engineers
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be a key driver in ensuring the platform is hardened for production at massive scale. This includes designing fault-tolerant architectures, building robust self-healing mechanisms, and implementing comprehensive telemetry to make the internal state of our distributed query engines completely transparent
- Developing data processing algorithms and techniques that work on large datasets, facilitating an interactive querying experience over large volumes of data
- Resiliency: Designing and implementing strategies for high availability, fault isolation, and graceful degradation of Spark and Trino clusters
- Observability: Building end-to-end tracing, deep metrics, and advanced alerting frameworks to proactively identify performance bottlenecks and system anomalies
- Scalability: Optimizing resource allocation, cluster auto-scaling, and multi-tenant isolation to support highly elastic and unpredictable workloads
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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