Senior Software Development Engineer (Distributed DB systems & Storage internals)

Workday India Private Limited

📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Full Time Computer Occupations Posted February 19, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

  • As a Senior Software Engineer on the Document Persistent Storage team, you will own the design, implementation, and scaling of our Erlang/Riak-based storage service, as well as the next generation of persistence-layer applications that will underpin our platform.

  • You have a strong knowledge of distributed systems including Service Oriented Architecture, multi-system application deployments, distributed data processing/management, clustering, networking, and load balancing. You are able to design services and solutions that process requests/data on many servers, are loosely coupled, scale horizontally, and are deployed globally.

  • We are looking for detailed understanding and application of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, concurrency, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale. Proficient in identifying bottlenecks and optimizing performance.

  • You perform well wit...