P4 Senior Development Engineer

We are seeking a P4 Senior Development Engineer to help design, build, optimize, and operate core platform services that power Workday at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and release automation to enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery.
• Help design, build, and operate highly available platform capabilities across AWS, GCP, and Workday data centers.
• Lead the technical design of core features and microservices, ensuring they are decoupled, horizontally scalable, and optimized for low latency and high throughput.
• Write clean, production-ready code for critical paths and refactor legacy components for maximum efficiency.
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks using APM tools.
• Optimize the data layer, including designing caching strategies, optimizing database schemas and queries, and selecting efficient serialization formats.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure software design aligns with AWS architecture and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Drive rigorous code reviews focused on architectural alignment, concurrency hazards, algorithmic efficiency, and production readiness.
• Establish benchmarking and load testing workflows within CI/CD pipelines to catch performance regressions early.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience writing clean, high-concurrency, and production-grade code utilizing Python, GoLang, or Java/C++.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or production operations.
• 4+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving scalable, distributed microservices architectures.
• Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues.
• Hands-on experience with profiling, tracing, and APM tools.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as Jenkins, Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, or Kustomize.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams.
• Experience supporting Java-based applications and build tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Pay Information: 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. Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD