Sr. Staff Software Engineer- Eng
About The Position
UKG is seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineer to join our Data Platform team. This role requires a self-motivated individual with a deep understanding of Data Warehouse, Near-real time analytics, CDC Eventing Platform and a passion for implementing highly scalable solutions that meet our customers' business needs. The ideal candidate will have a proven track track record designing and implementing cloud solutions that support large-scale data operations. They will also have a collaborative attitude, and a strong desire to strive for development standards and efficiencies. The candidate must be able to collaborate with others and successfully leverage their team to deliver on a multitude of project initiatives. Additionally, great organizational and communication skills, a keen sense of process improvement, and a strong desire to solve business problems are essential in this role.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in lead or staff-level positions.
- Experience architecting enterprise data lakes, lakehouse platforms, or real-time streaming data systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages used in data engineering.
- Deep experience building distributed data systems using GCP services (AWS is also acceptable), including BigQuery, Postgres, AlloyDB, Dataflow (Beam), Dataform, and Pub/Sub.
- Leverage AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex to accelerate software development, including generating production-ready code, refactoring existing systems, debugging complex issues, and improving engineering throughput while maintaining code quality, security, and architectural standards.
- Experience designing security-first data pipelines with privacy-preserving transformations.
- Ability to break ambiguous problems into structured designs and actionable plans.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
- Strong experience integrating data-science workflows or ML/analytical models into production systems.
- Strong exposure for highly reliable, scalable, secure, and decoupled solution
- Strong exposure of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process (CI/CD)
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of data modeling, partitioning strategies, schema evolution, and cost-efficient query optimization.
- Experience working with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets in cloud-based environments.
- Experience improving platform reliability through observability, data quality frameworks, and automated validation techniques.
- Experience operating in regulated environments with strong data compliance and audit requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and support to UKG Data Platform engineering teams
- Develop and maintain data systems, including but not limited to components for data flow, data storage, data retrieval, communication protocols, security, deployment processes, observability and integration points for high-volume data storage and retrieval across disparate systems.
- Evaluate and choose appropriate programming languages, frameworks, databases, and other technologies based on project needs
- Identify potential bottlenecks and design solutions to measure and optimize system performance and scalability
- Define and enforce CI/CD standards, development methodologies, and quality assurance processes
- Implement security measures to protect sensitive data and prevent vulnerabilities within the system
- Partner with multiple stakeholders to understand requirements and translate those into technical designs
- Document and communicate design decisions clearly to other developers, provide technical guidance, and resolve technical challenges
- Champion best practices in development, quality, and security while serving as a mentor and fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation
- Stay abreast of new technologies and industry standards
- Become proficient with our core products and support, educate and lead the group in such discussions
Benefits
- flexibility that’s real
- benefits you can count on
- team that succeeds together
- performance-based bonus plan
- restricted stock unit awards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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