Senior Observability & Distributed-Systems Engineer

Workday; Canada; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the technical design and execution for core components of our distributed tracing platform built on ClickHouse and Grafana Tempo, backed by a big-data pipeline. This is a hands-on role addressing multi-petabyte scale challenges and low-latency requirements.

You will mentor developers, drive engineering excellence, and serve as the domain expert for tracing ingestion, storage, and query performance, shaping observability AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in software development engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and execution for core components of Workday's distributed tracing platform.
• Tackle multi-petabyte scale challenges and optimize low-latency infrastructure.
• Mentor other developers and act as domain expert for tracing ingestion, storage, and query performance.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

Python

API development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Git

GitHub/Bitbucket

gRPC

REST

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Spark

Flink

ClickHouse

Iceberg

Tempo

Grafana

Elasticsearch

S3

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the technical design and execution for core components of our distributed tracing platform built on ClickHouse and Grafana Tempo, backed by a big-data pipeline. This is a hands-on role addressing multi-petabyte scale challenges and low-latency requirements.

You will mentor developers, drive engineering excellence, and serve as the domain expert for tracing ingestion, storage, and query performance, shaping observability AI