Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Observability & Data

Socket.dev; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday in Pleasanton, CA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the design and delivery of core components for a large-scale tracing platform. The role is hands-on, focusing on low-latency pipelines, ingestion and storage, and driving engineering excellence.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software engineering, strong distributed systems experience, and proficiency in Java/Go/Scala/Python. Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in software development engineering.
• 4+ years in designing, building, and operating complex distributed architectures with high availability.
• 5+ years in at least two of Java, Go, Scala, Python, with production code for distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and execution for core components of the tracing platform.
• Hands-on work tackling multi-petabyte scale challenges and optimizing low-latency infra.
• Mentor developers and serve as domain expert for ingestion, storage, and query performance.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Java

Go

Scala

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

ClickHouse

Kafka

Spark/Flink

Iceberg

S3

Grafana

Job description

Workday in Pleasanton, CA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to own the design and delivery of core components for a large-scale tracing platform. The role is hands-on, focusing on low-latency pipelines, ingestion and storage, and driving engineering excellence.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in software engineering, strong distributed systems experience, and proficiency in Java/Go/Scala/Python. Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering is required.