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[/company/workday-inc](/company/workday-inc)[Workday, Inc.](/company/workday-inc)
# Senior Software Engineer(Distributed Systems) at Workday, Inc.

Compensation · Listed in posting

$190,100 – $285,100/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Pleasanton, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 22, 2026

## Description

Workday is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer for its Data Platform and Observability Engineering team to own the technical design and execution of core components of a distributed tracing platform. The role focuses on ClickHouse and Grafana Tempo, Kafka, Spark/Flink, Iceberg, S3, and LangSmith-based LLM and agent observability, while solving multi-petabyte-scale challenges and optimizing low-latency infrastructure. The position requires extensive software development and distributed systems experience, with a primary location in Pleasanton, California, and an additional United States location range.

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