Principal Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Workday

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain large‑scale distributed services that support critical business functions.
• Drive performance optimization, capacity planning, and fault‑tolerance strategies across multi‑region deployments.
• Lead technical design reviews, mentor senior engineers, and champion best practices for code quality, testing, and observability.
• Collaborate with product, data, and security teams to translate requirements into robust, secure, and scalable solutions.
• Own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of services, from prototype through production monitoring and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in Java and building microservice‑based architectures.
• Proven track record designing, deploying, and operating distributed systems on AWS, leveraging containers and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of networking, concurrency, data consistency models, and scalability patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, ability to lead technical discussions, and mentor engineers across the organization.