# Senior Software Engineer(Distributed Systems) at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA, CA, Pleasanton
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-24
- Apply by: 2026-12-08
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Software-Engineer-Distributed-Systems-_JR-0110618?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-senior-software-engineer-distributed-systems/

## About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Software Development Engineer to build and operate a scalable data-product platform that enables engineering and analytics teams to create and govern production data products and marts. The platform spans the full data-product lifecycle, including dbt Core, Airflow, Trino, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3 Tables, AWS Glue Catalog, access control, security, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience building or operating production data platforms, lakehouse platforms, or distributed data systems
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production dbt Core projects
- Strong production SQL and data-modeling experience
- Experience with Airflow or another production workflow orchestration platform


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