Your work days are brighter here.

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

About the Role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of critical capabilities where security, accuracy, scalability, and performance are essential.

You will own features end-to-end—from design through launch—working closely with peers and cross-functional partners to clarify requirements, assess risks, and make tradeoffs that support long-term quality and maintainability.

In this role, you will:

• Design and deliver secure, scalable, performant, and observable product features.

• Streamline shift-left development by championing AI-agent and automation integration to refine requirements, assess risks, analyze designs, and enhance test planning, coverage, and defect identification.

• Lead projects from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through.

• Investigate and resolve production issues via root cause analysis, regression risk assessment, and durable fixes.

• Use production data, metrics, and service health signals to find and prioritize improvement opportunities.

• Identify and reduce technical debt that impacts reliability, scalability, or developer productivity.

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and day-to-day technical guidance.

• Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies and ensure smooth, low-risk launches.

• Other duties which are assigned by the Employer or authorized person of the Employer.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience developing and delivering scalable, high-availability cloud products.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Other Qualifications

• Strong collaboration, communication, and ownership mindset, with the ability to work effectively across teams and drive outcomes.

• Ability to mentor engineers, provide clear technical guidance, and support well-reasoned design and implementation decisions.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and Object-Oriented Design applied to build scalable, maintainable systems.

• Experience with Python/Django is an advantage.

• Advanced programming skills and a track record of delivering clean, well-tested, and secure code.

• Experience with architecture and system design, including secure design patterns, performance optimization, scalability, and safe rollout strategies.

• Strong testing mindset and hands-on experience across unit, integration, end-to-end, automated, and regression testing, combined with a proactive approach to production incident resolution.

• Experience in leveraging and driving AI and automation tool adoption across the full development lifecycle to innovate, improve engineering efficiency.

• Experience defining and driving monitoring and observability strategies using tools such as Datadog to analyze production metrics and service health.

• Experience with cloud systems and data stores, including high I/O databases (such as Redis, Aurora), event streaming or queue systems (such as RabbitMQ), and core AWS services.

• Experience with modern source control practices and workflows, and comfort working in a fast-moving, production-focused environment.

• Good verbal and written English communication skills.

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.

At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email [email protected].

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