Sr Software Development Engineer

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses. Our solutions combine the lower cost of ownership of SaaS with a modern approach to applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers Human Capital Management, Payroll, Financial Management and Worker Spend Management solutions for midsize and Fortune 500 companies.

About the Role

The position within the Performance, Resiliency and Scalability group, is ideally suited to diverse candidates from a performance engineering or development background with a deep focus on performance and resiliency engineering. 

The team has a broad charter that spans from the debugging and recreation of specific customer issues, to using the latest Big Data/Machine Learning techniques in order to extract actionable data and model future capacity and scalability needs. 

Workday Performance, Resiliency and Scalability Engineers are highly skilled and rigorous engineers who debug, measure, support, and improve our software. They play a critical role in optimizing services across the full technology stack where they distill opaque problems into actionable solutions.
 

About You

Are you a hardworking, creative and driven team member who can support us in our mission to develop a world class public cloud platform to support the Workday and its Customers?

If you like trying new techniques and approaches to sophisticated problems, love to learn new technologies, are a natural collaborator and an excellent teammate who brings out the best in everyone around you, then give us a shout!

We’re looking for a motivated engineer who is committed to cloud native principles. The right candidate will be able to drive Workday’s public cloud platform development, understand other teams’ needs for the platform, discuss and deliver solutions with architects and business partners. If you are an innovative and energetic teammate with a passion for cloud related technologies, we’d love to hear from you.

Basic qualifications:
* 4+ years of experience in SQL and/or MySQL
* 4+ years of experience with Python OR Pandas, OR ML libraries.

* Bachelor's Degree or 5+ years of proven experience

Other qualifications:
* Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing with tools like Gatling, Jmeter, Loadrunner.

* Proven ability to analyze complex problem, break them down into manageable components and design effective solutions.

* Proven ability to debug/administer Linux based operating systems.

* Experience with JProfiler, Jconsole or other system profiling tools.
* Experience with technologies used in modern distributed architectures: Kubernetes, Service Meshes, Circuit Breakers etc.

* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Collaborative team player

* Experience in Object Oriented principles and design patterns. 
* Experience with large volumes of data, quickly triage scalability, capacity and performance issues
* Capacity estimating, data mining, modelling, or planning

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Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $165,600 USD - $248,400 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $140,600 USD - $248,400 USD

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.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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