Software Development Engineer Data Warehouse Core
Job Summary
Your work days are brighter here.
Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
The Data Warehouse Core team is part of Workdays Data Platform Engineering organization where our mission is to bring together Workdays data products and technologies to build the next-generation secure and at-scale data platform enabling customers to build AI-native applications and agents.Our teams focus is on enabling and supporting bi-directional zero copy of data efficient storage processing and querying over tens of billions of rows within a tenant. We bring deep expertise in distributed systems data processing frameworks and database internals the foundational building blocks that power Workdays data cloud. More specifically the areas we work on include:
Storage and management of structured Tables
Table DML (e.g. batch updates) and DDL operations
Data types query languages and operators for data transformation
Materialization of complex query plans (Views/Materialized Views) over large base data
Scheduling and orchestration of long running batch jobs
What makes this team exciting is the scale and impact of the problems we the year ahead we will be focused on Workdays data cloud projects building the infrastructure that underpins how customers access move and analyze their data. If you are energized by designing systems that operate at massive scale and shaping the future of enterprise data this is the team for you.
About the Role
As part of Workdays Data Platform Engineering org you will be responsible for building and enhancing Workdays data cloud features. Youre an engineer who is passionate about data management and distributed data processing frameworks and algorithms. Performance scalability and reliability of these algorithms are constantly on your mind and looking to stay involved in these areas. You have the chops to build the infrastructure that powers high-performance data crunching on large volumes of data while ensuring simplicity and ease-of-use of the overall product. You enjoy the thrill of coming up with brilliant ideas and can articulate their value-prop to partners but are most satisfied when you turn these ideas into solid high quality implementations that make customers successful.
About You
You are an engineer who is passionate about software development and takes pride in your work. You think and code in terms of well defined abstractions. You enjoy coming up with novel solutions and can clearly articulate the value to stakeholders. You are excited about working as part of a team of engineers. You have a strong interest in learning about and developing data management and distributed data processing frameworks and algorithms. You are a fast learner and enjoy learning new technical areas such as languages and frameworks.
Basic Qualifications
4 years software development experience in an object-oriented or functional language
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or relevant field or MS in Computer Science or a relevant field
Other Qualifications
Linux expertise
Background in data warehousing database system internals and/or distributed systems
Experience in distributed data processing engines or data management systems
Good grasp of SQL
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work were 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 youll 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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