Software Development Engineer (Data Platform)

Join Workday's Messaging, Streaming and Caching team, a full-service Distributed Systems Engineering team. As a Software Development Engineer, you will design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, manage and optimize Workday distributed services in various cloud environments, and champion all aspects of streaming, messaging, and caching. You will also participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms.

• Conception, design, and implementation of distributed services, including messaging, streaming, and caching systems.
• Development and maintenance of client libraries and SDKs to facilitate the integration of Workday products.
• Automation of deployment and operation of clusters, ensuring high availability and performance of distributed systems.

• 3+ years of development and DevOps experience in designing and operating large-scale deployments of distributed NoSQL & messaging systems
• 5+ years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following: Java/Scala, Golang
• 4+ years of distributed systems experience
• 5+ years of experiences as a Kafka, Redis or RabbitMQ Admin with cloud platform experience
• You have independently led product features and deployed on large scale NoSQL clusters
• You are a senior software engineer with a distributed systems background and significant experience in distributed systems products like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ or Zookeeper
• 1+ year of leading a NoSQL technology related product right from conception to deployment and maintenance
• Extensive experience with modern software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile
• Preferred Experience – EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV)
• Candidates with experience supporting EU Sovereign Cloud (EU-SOV) or other regulated cloud environments are highly preferred
• Expertise with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD
• Experience learning complex open source service internals via code inspection
• Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization
• Experience with Linux system internals and tuning
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background
• Hands-on experience with atleast one or more distributed systems technologies like Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, Cassandra
• Expertise in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load
• A consistent track record of technical project leadership and success involving collaborators and interested partners across the enterprise
• Operating production workloads in sovereign, government, or regulated cloud environments
• Managing Kafka, Redis and RabbitMQ in environments with strict data residency, compliance, and security requirements
• Supporting compliance initiatives such as GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar regulatory frameworks
• Implementing platform security controls, including IAM, RBAC, TLS, encryption, certificate management, and secrets management
• Collaborating with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to prepare for audits and maintain operational compliance
• Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience for mission-critical distributed platforms