Senior Software Development Engineer -Database Engineering

Full Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company is building out one of our newest teams, Data Management. This highly visible team is responsible for moving our enterprise SaaS application into a modern and scalable database solution.

About the Role

Do you get excited working on enterprise SaaS applications? Come build out the newest addition to our Business Planning Cloud solution. Work on the core of the product, providing a scalable and performant solution. We are looking for a creative and motivated engineer with good Java development experience. The candidate will collaborate with a small talented team of engineers to build out our next generation cloud services platform. Our new team member needs to be able to understand, communicate, and enforce the company’s software architecture strategy. As well as coach and mentor software engineers inside and outside the team

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 10+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise software

• 10+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot

• Experience architecting and designing new features

• Experience with Kafka or event driven architecture

• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles

• Deep knowledge of programming languages and frameworks

• Experience in SQL, JDBC and core database concepts (Oracle, Postgres, etc.)

• Experience with designing and implementing Micro-service system architectures

• Detailed knowledge of REST, including good API design and versioning

• Strong grasp of algorithms, design patterns, coding best practices, unit testing and experience with crafting detailed technical documents

Other Qualifications:

• Experience with schema design, data normalization, query optimization, distributed systems, fault-tolerance, redundancy, scalability and performance tuning.

• Experience with cloud database technologies like AWS RDS / Aurora

• Experience with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.

• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus

• Good communication, time management, organizational skills and attention to detail

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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