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Workday Principal Software Development Engineer in Remote, Michigan
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
Document Storage Service provides secure, resilient, and highly scalable persistence with simple, easy-to-use APIs. We build, expand and extend outstanding database, key value and object storage applications to store and orchestrate documents in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
About the Role
As a Principal Software Engineer in the Document Storage - Persistence layer, you will be responsible for leading the development team that is building/ maintaining / rapidly growing the current Erlang / RIAK application and new persistence layer applications the team will build and use in the future. We are considering fully remote candidates.
You are an engineer who is passionate about developing distributed applications in a multi-tenanted private cloud environment. You take pride in developing distributed systems techniques to coordinate application services, high availability and disaster recovery of applications in private cloud. You think not only about what is valuable for the development of right abstractions and modules but also about programmatic interfaces to enable customer success. You can make all of this happen using JVM, OTP, and related distributed computing technologies.
About You
Basic Qualifications
7 years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems using open source technologies
7 years of experience coding in Erlang, Scala, Elixir or other similar language.
Other Qualifications:
Deep understanding of Linux networking and storage layers.
Lead teams of engineers building highly resilient distributed databases.
Expert in RIAK noSQL database.
Experience and understanding of the internals of at least one distributed system such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.
Master's or PhD degree in computer Science or equivalent experience
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business nee