Senior Software Engineer - Spark Platform

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About the Team

The Spark Platform team is tasked with empowering various teams that utilize Apache Spark as an open source data processing engine. This team helps Workday's analytics products to use Apache Spark for processing large volumes of data for crucial processing, interactive analysis, and reporting. The team is responsible for designing and developing new features in Spark, as well as for performance, stability, scalability, and operations in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

About the Role

As part of Workday’s Analytics team, you'll be responsible for building, enhancing, and extending our Spark-based, large-scale distributed data processing engine in the cloud.

You'll work with an exceptional team to architect and develop features in Spark for our:

• High-velocity hybrid transactional/analytical engine
• Low-latency interactive engine
• Large scale cube builder engine

Developing data processing algorithms and techniques that work on large data sets, and algorithms that facilitate interactive querying experience over large volumes of data will be among your main responsibilities.

About You

Basic Qualifications - Principal Software Engineer

• 10+ years experience with any of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, C++, Python
• 8+ years of software development in specific sectors (e.g. SQL, database internals, distributed systems, JVM performance tuning, cloud computing architectures, etc.)
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience (e.g., leading multiple high-complexity features with a team of engineers in collaboration with multiple teams, acting as the technical lead or architect of a development team, etc.)

Other Qualifications

• You have a BS in Computer Science or a similar field with 5 years of experience, or an MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field with 3 years of experience.
• Good understanding of SQL and distributed data processing engines
• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Industry experience in building and delivering high-performance data processing engines.

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