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Sr Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Job Overview

Location

IND.Chennai

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

April 18, 2026

Full Job Description

📋 Description

  • • As a Sr Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) on Workday's Data Warehouse Core team, you will build and enhance Workday's data cloud features, focusing on distributed ingestion, transaction, and query processing engines at massive scale.
  • • Day to day, you will architect and develop algorithms for fast, efficient transactions and queries over tens of billions of rows in a multi-tenanted cloud environment, working with storage management, table DML/DDL, data types, query languages, materialized views, and batch job orchestration.
  • • You will join Workday's Data Platform Engineering organization, a Fortune 500 company and leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, where the team is building the next-generation secure, at-scale data platform to enable AI-native applications and agents.
  • • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in distributed systems, database internals, and data processing frameworks while contributing to infrastructure that shapes how customers access, move, and analyze their data, with opportunities to work with Scala, Java, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Apache Iceberg, and Trino.

Skills & Technologies

Java
Rust
Scala
Kubernetes
Apache Spark
Senior
Onsite

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About Workday, Inc.

Workday, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise software for finance, human resources, and planning. Its unified platform combines financial management, human capital management, analytics, and workforce planning to help organizations manage core business processes. Founded in 2005, the company serves Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies worldwide, delivering applications designed for adaptability, data-driven insights, and continuous innovation.

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