Senior Software Development Engineer (Full Stack)

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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

This team (Intelligent Automation) within the DPLE (Development and Production Lifecycle Engineering) organization is accountable for designing, developing, and deploying an automation platform/ framework that will be used by multiple service teams at Workday to run their automation/ orchestration from a central place. This platform can be leveraged for both Public and Private Cloud giving a single pane of glass for IT Operations Management including Service console, Metadata of the fleet, tenants, services etc. The tasks also involve talking to the user base on collecting requirements for enhanced features and addressing their questions/ queries.

About the Role

We work hard, play hard while having each other's back. We embody the Workday culture of integrity, innovation and fun. The Intelligent Automation’s overall goal is to provide high business value for our customers by accelerating the delivery of our product features in an agile environment while providing a scalable, reliable, resilient and easy to use orchestration and automation platform..

You will take on the challenge of building and executing on the product and technical vision, proving out sophisticated designs and scaling it to meet growing business needs while minimizing operational cost.
 

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design of Workday’s future applications

• Write code, develop tools, and perform other software engineering tasks vital to prove out the architecture, in an iterative, agile environment

• Be able to adapt quickly, yet generate high quality output, knowing that iteration is a meaningful aspect of our development process

• Document design and code for maintainability

• Collaborate on how to best deploy and operationalize selected technologies at scale

• Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's efficiency, job satisfaction, and code quality

• Collaborate with architects, principal engineers and technical product managers to analyze functional requirements, devise architecture designs that provide real scalability, low latency, and high availability

• Be an enthusiast of our technologies and products. Influence and collaborate across functional teams in coming together towards a common business goal and data architecture

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years experience with software development and deployment

• 3+ years of experience in programming applying one or more of the following: Python, Go-lang, JavaScript

• 3+ years of experience with deployment and scalability tools such as: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Fluxcd

• 3+ years experience in public cloud offerings: AWS, GCP, Azure

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• You have a strong software engineering background and a proven track record of delivering high quality products at scale into production.

• You are comfortable working alongside our product and architecture organizations to clarify and prune requirements, delivering value incrementally and frequently

• You have the ability to balance priorities and make the right tradeoffs in feature content and timely delivery of features, while ensuring customer success and technology leadership for the company

Bonus Qualifications

• Deep appreciation of application development issues at enterprise level, specifically, large number of developers working together on the same application

• Familiarity with GraphQL, REST APIs, Aurora

• Familiarity with cloud native tooling, primarily AWS

• Experience with Frontend Development - React/Typescript

• Knowledge of functional programming

• Excellent verbal and written communication

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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