Senior Data Engineer — AI/ML Data Platform

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering) to join Platypus, our AI/ML-centered data engineering team, in Pleasanton, CA.

You will work on ingestion, governance, derivation, and serving of data for classic ML and agentic initiatives, using Python, Spark, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg. You will contribute to building scalable data pipelines, collaborate across teams, and own deployments from code to production with CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or distributed systems experience.
• 4+ years in data engineering or related field(s).
• Experience with CI/CD and Docker in production deployments.
• Cloud experience with AWS or GCP.
• Experience with data streaming and storage technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Iceberg.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to ingestion, governance, derivation, and serving of data for ML initiatives.
• Build scalable data pipelines and services for production use.
• Collaborate with teams to design robust data platforms.
• Implement monitoring and reliability practices across data systems.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

Tools

Apache Spark

Apache Iceberg

Apache Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS/GCP

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering) to join Platypus, our AI/ML-centered data engineering team, in Pleasanton, CA.

You will work on ingestion, governance, derivation, and serving of data for classic ML and agentic initiatives, using Python, Spark, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg. You will contribute to building scalable data pipelines, collaborate across teams, and own deployments from code to production with CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.