Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

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Were Platypus an AI/ML-centered data engineering team and our goal is to ingest manage derive and serve data across Workdays growing suite of AI/ML features. Right data right time!

About the Role

In this role you will contribute to the ingestion discoverability governance derivation and serving of data for Workdays Classic Machine Learning and agentic initiatives. Youll be working hands-on with technologies like Python Spark AWS Infra Kafka Terraform/Kubernetes and Iceberg.

About You

You are a highly motivated and skilled Software engineer with a passion for data engineering and machine learning. You strive to apply technology to drive real impact on Workdays business initiatives. You thrive in a collaborative environment working closely with your colleagues to deliver innovative solutions. You possess excellent communication skills actively listening to understand different perspectives and effectively conveying technical ideas. You are eager to contribute to a high-performing team and are driven to continuously learn and grow in the ever-evolving world of Distributed Systems Data Engineering and Machine Learning.

Basic Qualifications: (Required)

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience

• 7 years of experience in Software Engineering Distributed Systems or a related field

• 4 years proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Java Scala Python

• 4 years in data engineering or related field(s)

• Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS GCP)

• Experience with at least one of these data engineering technologies: Apache Spark Apache Iceberg Apache Avro Apache Kafka Apache Flink

Other Qualifications:

• Experience in delivering a service from writing code to deploying in production: continuous integration (Jenkins) virtualization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes Terraform)

• Experience creating scalable service endpoints to retrieve data

• Track record of working with logging monitoring metrics stats technologies such as: Grafana Prometheus Kibana Hive etc

• Proficient collaborating with teammates to design maintain and improve sophisticated object-oriented software following clean code standard methodology

• A testing/quality approach - unit system/integration and end-to-end testing TDD feature toggles and canary deployments

• Exposure to operating system concepts covering memory and storage threading and concurrency networking and sockets and process management

• An understanding and experience with topics related to performance and scale security availability deployment and operations

• Experience being responsible for a service in production with experience of production triage and on-call.

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The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Primary Location:

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $140000 - $210000 CAD

Additional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $140000 - $210000 CAD

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Monthly Salary Salary: 140000 - 210000