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# Software Development Engineer - Data Cloud

- **Company:** Workday, Inc.
- **Location:** Pleasanton, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $148,000.0 - $222,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Apache HTTP Server, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Data Warehousing, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Systems, Apache Hive, Object-Oriented Software Development, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Data Management, Functional Programming, Workday
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9271845/software-development-engineer-data-cloud

## About the Role

You are an engineer who takes pride in your work. Furthermore, you:

 * Understand the importance of doing what is right for the customer
 * Are passionate about software development and think and code in terms of well-defined abstractions
 * Enjoy coming up with novel solutions and can clearly articulate their value to stakeholders
 * Are excited about working as part of an engineering team
 * Have a strong interest in learning about and developing data management and distributed data processing systems and algorithms
 * Are a fast learner who enjoys exploring new technical areas, languages, and frameworks, * 4+ years software development experience in an object-oriented or functional language
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant field or MS in Computer Science or a relevant field

Other Qualifications

 * Background in data warehousing, database system internals and/or distributed systems
 * Experience in distributed data processing engines or data management systems
 * Good grasp of SQL
 * Experience with one or more of: Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Spark SQL internals, Apache Iceberg and zero-copy architectures, Apache Polaris, Trino

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

## Description

As part of Workday's Data Platform Engineering org, you will be responsible for building and enhancing Workday's Data Cloud. You're an engineer who is passionate about data management and distributed data processing frameworks and algorithms. Performance, scalability, and reliability of these algorithms are constantly on your mind and looking to stay involved in these areas. You have the chops to build the infrastructure that powers high-performance data crunching on large volumes of data while ensuring simplicity and ease-of-use of the overall product. You enjoy the thrill of coming up with brilliant ideas and can articulate their value-prop to partners but are most satisfied when you turn these ideas into solid high quality implementations that make customers successful.