Workday
Software Development Engineer(Distributed Systems)
$124K–$222K
USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years software development engineering; 3+ years focused on complex distributed systems; 5+ years with at least two of Java, Python, or Go.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; equivalent practical experience accepted. Master’s degree is strongly preferred.
About the job
Build and operate Workday’s distributed tracing and observability platform, including high-throughput data pipelines and tracing support for LLM and agent workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop and scale tracing platform features, focusing on reliable data ingestion and fast query execution.
- Build and maintain big-data pipelines; optimize production latency and throughput and ensure service reliability and security.
- Support platform operations and AI observability, including monitoring, on-call participation, documentation, and design collaboration.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software development engineering experience, including 5+ years with at least two of Java, Python, or Go.
- 3+ years designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems, with high availability and fault tolerance experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, or ClickHouse.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Experience with observability pipelines or data lake platforms.
Pay
$148,000 USD - $222,000 USD (base salary); $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
ClickHouse, Grafana Tempo, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Iceberg, S3, LangSmith
AI focus
Extend distributed tracing to LLM and agent workflows using LangSmith and LangChain, and build ingestion paths supporting AI-driven anomaly detection and root-cause analysis.
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