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Software Development Engineer(Distributed Systems) at Workday, Inc.

Compensation · Listed in posting

$148,000 – $222,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Pleasanton, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

Workday is hiring a Software Development Engineer to build and scale core features of its distributed tracing and observability platform. The role involves developing high-performance backend services on ClickHouse and Grafana Tempo, maintaining Kafka, Spark/Flink, and Iceberg-on-S3 pipelines, optimizing latency and throughput, ensuring reliability and security, supporting observability AI, and participating in on-call and system design activities. The position is based in Pleasanton, California, with a flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% office or field time each quarter, and offers an annualized base salary of $148,000 to $222,000 USD.

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