Sr. Associate Software Development Engineer - Big Data Services

Your work days are brighter here. 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 Welcome to the Big Data Services team! We are responsible for the Big Data Platform that serves Workday analytics and machine-learning applications running in our private data centers, AWS, and GCP. We provide a highly-available, highly-scalable data services platform related to persistence, compute and enterprise security. Our services enable Workday to quickly and efficiently scale to meet the needs of our multi-billion-dollar customer base. We are crucial to the Workday Analytics family of products. We power reporting, analytics, machine learning, and other data-centric applications. We are constantly innovating and challenging the way we do things. About the Role The Workday Big Data Platform team is seeking enthusiastic, innovative, self-motivated engineers to craft and implement outstanding solutions in one of the biggest hybrid-cloud environments on Earth. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting our fault-tolerant, high-performance platform for data analytics. In this role you will: Develop scalable solutions for both Workday private data centers and public cloud Rapidly build new applications and automate operations on one of the largest big data clusters on Earth Modernize our on-premise Hadoop infrastructure to provide public-cloud-like services Work on multiple types of software development including REST services, logging/monitoring, and DevOps. Collaborate with other team members to deliver innovative tools that solve challenging problems Improve our teams technical capabilities by applying cutting-edge technologies Serve in an on-call rotation for handling urgent production issues We're committed to your career growth. If you are willing to bring your experience and passion to make this role a success, our commitment is to continue to develop your skill set and foster your success in your career at Workday. About You Basic Qualifications 2 years experience in software development engineering, preferably within a SaaS environment. 2 years of distributed systems engineering experience, primarily in Java and Python Other Qualifications Experience with one or more of the following: Scala, Python, Ruby Knowledge of enterprise security, encryption at-rest and in-motion, authentication and authorization Good understanding of how Hadoop/Spark clusters work Familiar with distributed computing design patterns Familiar with agentic software development Experience deploying to Kubernetes and Docker General knowledge about public cloud capabilities and architecture Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills Workday Pay Transparency Statement T he annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges ... (truncated, view full listing at source)