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Sr Software Development Engineer

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
As a Sr Software Development Engineer at Workday, you will integrate Big Data Analytics with cloud infrastructure, focusing on developing resilient, distributed systems.
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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Workday Prism Analytics is a self-service analytics solution for Finance and Human Resources teams that allows companies to bring external data into Workday, combine it with existing people or financial data, and present it via Workday’s reporting framework. This gives the end user a comprehensive collection of insights that can be carried out in a flash.
We design, build and maintain the data warehousing systems that underpin our Analytics products. We straddle both applications and systems, the ideal candidate for this role is someone who has a passion for solving hyper scale engineering challenges to serve the largest companies on the planet.

About the Role

As part of Workday’s Prism Analytics team, you will be responsible for the integration of our Big Data Analytics stack with Workday's cloud infrastructure. You will work on building, improving and extending large-scale distributed data processing frameworks like Spark, Hadoop, and YARN in a multi-tenanted cloud environment. You will also be responsible for developing techniques for cluster management, high availability and disaster recovery of the Analytics Platform, Hadoop and Spark services. You will also engineer smart tools and frameworks that provide easy monitoring, troubleshooting, and manageability of our cloud-based analytic services.

About You

You are an engineer who is passionate about developing distributed applications in a multi-tenanted cloud environment. You take pride in developing distributed systems techniques to coordinate application services, ensuring the application remains highly available and working on disaster recovery for the applications in the cloud. You think not only about what is valuable for the development of right abstractions and modules but also about programmatic interfaces to enable customer success. You also excel in the ability to balance priorities and make the right tradeoffs in feature content and timely delivery of features while ensuring customer success and technology leadership for the company. You can make all of this happen using Java, Spark, and related Hadoop technologies.

Basic Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • At least 6+ years of software development experience (using Java, Scala or other languages) with deep Linux/Unix expertise.

Other Qualifications

  • Experience in building Highly Available, Scalable, Reliable multi-tenanted big data applications on Cloud (AWS, GCP) and/or Data Center architectures.
  • Working knowledge of distributed system principles.
  • Experience with managing big data frameworks like Spark and/or Hadoop.
  • Understanding of resource management using YARN, Kubernetes, etc.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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Top Skills

AWS
GCP
Hadoop
Java
Kubernetes
Linux
Scala
Spark
Unix
Yarn

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