Job Overview

Role: Sr. Staff Software Engineer- Eng. Department: Software & Product Development. Location: Sunrise,FL,United States. Employment Type: Regular. Work Style: hybrid. Travel: Up to 25%.

Eligibility / Qualification Required:

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.

Job Summary:
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 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.
Duties and 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

Basic Qualifications:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

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.

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.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.

The pay range for this position is $145,600 to $209,300 The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at https://www.ukg.com/about-us/careers/benefits

How to Apply:

Apply online through the official UKG careers portal.
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