Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

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Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineering) in Canada new

Workday
Full time
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Canada
11/08/2026
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Vancouver

Responsibilities

Develop data ingestion, discoverability, governance, derivation, and serving systems for machine learning and agentic initiatives.
Build scalable service endpoints for data retrieval and deliver services from code development through production deployment.
Work with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data engineering technologies, and machine learning-related data workflows.
Design, maintain, and improve sophisticated object-oriented software collaboratively.
Implement testing and quality practices including unit, system/integration, and end-to-end testing, feature toggles, and canary deployments.
Monitor and operate production services, including logging, metrics, performance, production triage, and on-call support.

Requirements

BSc or MSc in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or a related field.
4+ years of proficiency in at least two of Java, Scala, and Python.
4+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field.
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and managed services on AWS or GCP.
Experience with at least one of Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Avro, Apache Kafka, or Apache Flink.
Experience with production deployment using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
Experience with scalable service endpoints, monitoring and observability technologies, object-oriented software, testing, operating-system concepts, performance and scale, security, availability, deployment, and operations.
Experience owning a production service, including production triage and on-call.

Benefits

Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field for applicable roles.
Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities, veterans, religious needs, or other applicable circumstances.

Salary: $176k - $264k/yr

Workday

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