Principal Data Cloud Platform Engineer

Workday, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 223,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Data Platform Engineer to lead the Data Cloud initiative. You will architect and build features for ingestion, query processing, and storage engines, driving performance and scalability across large data volumes.

You will collaborate with teams across the company to deliver reliable data management solutions and mentor engineers, ensuring high-quality implementations that empower customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Background in data warehousing and distributed systems
• Strong SQL understanding
• Cloud computing experience (GCP/AWS) and Kubernetes
• Experience with data management systems like Spark and Iceberg
• Knowledge of distributed data processing engines

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance Workday's Data Cloud platform
• Lead a team to architect and implement features for ingestion, query processing, and storage engines
• Focus on performance, scalability, and reliability of data processing algorithms
• Turn ideas into high-quality implementations to help customers

Skills

Java/Scala/C++/Go/Rust

Experience in relevant domains

Education

BS or MS in CS

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Iceberg

Trino

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DuckDB

Kubernetes

Linux

GCP

AWS

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Data Platform Engineer to lead the Data Cloud initiative. You will architect and build features for ingestion, query processing, and storage engines, driving performance and scalability across large data volumes.

You will collaborate with teams across the company to deliver reliable data management solutions and mentor engineers, ensuring high-quality implementations that empower customers and partners.