Senior Backend Engineer- Data Platform

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

About the Role

• Architecture Decisions: Participating in and influencing architecture decisions around applicative data, ensuring they align with standard methodologies and business goals.

• Full ownership of the organization's data flows, pipelines, databases and tools.

• Enabling Development Teams to build and handle ETLs seamlessly, providing the tools and frameworks needed for efficient data processing. 

• Develop and maintain a self-service platform for development teams to register for events and handle data seamlessly. Design and implement asynchronous event-driven data solutions to improve system responsiveness and scalability.

• Collaborating with product teams to help them use data reliably and efficiently using our data platform tools for user facing applications by crafting tools for them to run their own ETLs and register and handle asynchronous events

• Ownership of user-facing Databases: Ensuring the performance, availability, and security of user-facing databases and data access services. (MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Postgres DB)

• Tool Development: Developing and maintaining tools and processes for data migrations, purging, and governance.

• Teamwork: Collaborating with cross-functional teams including data scientists, analysts, and developers to support their data needs.

• Data Quality: Ensuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the data within our platform..

• Monitoring and Optimization: Supervising the performance of data platform tools and databases, and optimizing them for efficiency and scalability.

About You

• 6+ years of experience in a similar role in a SaaS company.

• Platform tools enthusiast with a passion for using technology to tackle sophisticated challenges.

• Strong understanding of data.

• Experience with 24/7 production applications/databases.

• Experience with a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with Python.

• Loves dashboards and observability

• Deep diver - not afraid to open dashboards, logs, K8S resources, and SSH into container in order to tackle an issue.

• Thrive in a team setting and able to mentor team members.

• Technical lead who loves to push for high-value initiatives and raise the quality bar

Other Qualifications:

• Experience working with Celery, RabbitMQ, Spark, BigQuery, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elastic
• Proven experience in building and maintaining data platforms in a SaaS environment.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply 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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