Why UKG

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you'll get flexibility that's real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Staff Data Engineer with 12-15 years of overall experience and strong hands-on expertise in building and maintaining enterprise-scale data engineering solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and integrating them within application.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting batch and real-time data pipelines using the GCP data engineering ecosystem. The candidate should also have a good understanding of broader GCP cloud services, security, monitoring, CI/CD, and production support practices required to operate reliable data platforms. Candidate should be well versed with architecting, design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality backend services, APIs, distributed components, and cloud-native capabilities for the Ready product.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable Java backend services, APIs, distributed components, and cloud-native capabilities.

Build reliable batch and streaming data pipelines using GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer.

Develop enterprise-grade ETL/ELT frameworks to ingest data from databases, APIs, files, messaging platforms, and other sources.

Apply strong object-oriented design, modern Java frameworks, concurrency, asynchronous processing, and performance engineering practices.

Design resilient microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven workflows, integration patterns, and distributed system components.

Design and optimize relational data models, BigQuery datasets, schemas, indexes, partitions, clusters, and query execution strategies.

Own complex technical deliverables from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.

Lead technical design reviews and contribute to technology roadmaps, modernization initiatives, framework selection, and build-versus-buy decisions.

Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, availability, reliability, security, data quality, maintainability, and cost efficiency.

Implement observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and tools such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or Datadog.

Troubleshoot complex issues across application, database, data pipeline, infrastructure, integration, and deployment layers.

Implement robust retry, checkpointing, reconciliation, backfill, replay, error handling, and disaster recovery mechanisms.

Apply secure engineering and GCP practices, including IAM, service accounts, encryption, secrets management, authorization, and least-privilege access.

Collaborate with architects, product managers, SRE, DevOps, QA, data teams, ML engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver sustainable solutions.

Mentor engineers, promote reusable engineering patterns, leverage AI-assisted development responsibly, and influence technical quality across multiple teams.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.     

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