Principal Engineer - Distributed Database Engine

Company: Workday, Inc.
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: October 18, 2020

Job Description:

At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We are laser focused on building the next great data analytics technologies. If you join us, you can expect to work with talented, driven, creative and results-oriented co-workers who also bring joy and balance to their work in a fast paced environment. We have assembled a uniquely diverse engineering team with experience ranging from academic and industrial research to building and delivering cutting-edge software. We are building desktop-class web applications that operate at the intersection of distributed systems, high-performance analytics, HCI and computer graphics. It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. Principal Engineer - Distributed Database Engine Join our team and experience Workday It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun. Job Description Join our team and experience Workday At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We are laser focused on building the next great data analytics technologies. If you join us, you can expect to work with talented, driven, creative and results-oriented co-workers who also bring joy and balance to their work in a fast paced environment. We have assembled a uniquely diverse engineering team with experience ranging from academic and industrial research to building and delivering cutting-edge software. We are building desktop-class web applications that operate at the intersection of distributed systems, high-performance analytics, HCI and computer graphics. It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. The Role As part of Workday's Analytics team, you will be responsible for building, enhancing and extending our large scale distributed data processing engines in the cloud. You will help lead a top-notch team to architect and build features in our distributed SQL ingestion, query and transaction processing engines. You will be responsible for developing algorithms and techniques for supporting fast, efficient queries and transactions in a multi-tenanted cloud environment over large scale semi-structured and structured data. About You You are an engineer who is passionate about data management and distributed data processing frameworks and algorithms. Performance, scalability and reliability of these algorithms are not an afterthought for you. You take pride in building algorithms that are not only scalable and efficient but also require no tuning. You think and code in terms of well defined abstractions, relational algebra and operators. You take pride in building high performance infrastructure and platforms that are capable of processing large volumes of data while ensuring simplicity. You enjoy coming up with novel solutions and can clearly articulate the value to the stakeholders. You also excel in the ability to juggle priorities and make the right tradeoffs in feature content and timely delivery of features while ensuring customer success. You can make all of this happen using Scala, Java, Spark and related Hadoop technologies. Required Skills Industry experience building and delivering high-performance data processing engines. Excellent coding skills, Java, Scala, and Linux expertise Expertise in distributed systems Background in database internals, query processing, and distributed systems Good grasp of SQL and distributed data processing engines Experience leading a team of engineers You have a BS in Computer Science with 8 years of experience, MS in Computer Science with 5 years of experience or a PhD in relevant area. Tags: Java, Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Cloud, Database Internals, Distributed Systems, Query Engine, Database Engine, Data Integration Platforms USA, CA, San Mateo USA, CA, Pleasanton It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun., You are an engineer who is passionate about data management and distributed data processing frameworks and algorithms. Performance, scalability and reliability of these algorithms are not an afterthought for you. You take pride in building algorithms that are not only scalable and efficient but also require no tuning. You think and code in terms of well defined abstractions, relational algebra and operators. You take pride in building high performance infrastructure and platforms that are capable of processing large volumes of data while ensuring simplicity. You enjoy coming up with novel solutions and can clearly articulate the value to the stakeholders. You also excel in the ability to juggle priorities and make the right tradeoffs in feature content and timely delivery of features while ensuring customer success., Industry experience building and delivering high-performance data processing engines. Excellent coding skills, Java, Scala, and Linux expertise Expertise in distributed systems Background in database internals, query processing, and distributed systems Good grasp of SQL and distributed data processing engines Experience leading a team of engineers You have a BS in Computer Science with 8 years of experience, MS in Computer Science with 5 years of experience or a PhD in relevant area. Tags: Java, Scala, Spark, Hadoop, Cloud, Database Internals, Distributed Systems, Query Engine, Database Engine, Data Integration Platforms

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