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Software Development Engineer

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$148,000 USD - $222,000 USD per year

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Description

We're seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Admin Central team, focusing on building the future of how administrators work across Workday. You'll design, build, and maintain high-performance microservices and data pipelines that power Workday's next-generation Agentic Workflow and Analytics Platform.

In this hands-on role, you'll:

  • Work with big-data technologies like Kafka, Spark/Flink, ClickHouse, and S3, writing clean, scalable services in Python, Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Design multi-agent architectures that provide enterprise-grade agentic capabilities.
  • Extend existing agentic workflows, integrating tools like LangSmith and LangChain.
  • Help build the governed deployment fabric, handling configuration, data migration, and validation largely by agents.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Data Engineering, SRE, and Legal/Compliance to ship reliable features.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Feature Development: Design, code, and deploy production-ready microservices and streaming pipelines.
  • API & Data Engineering: Build scalable REST and gRPC APIs for seamless integrations.
  • Performance & Data Pipelines: Optimize high-throughput data ingestion and query execution.
  • Quality & Automation: Write robust unit, integration, and distributed load tests.
  • Operational Monitoring: Monitor, triage, and resolve production issues.
  • Technical Documentation: Author clean API specifications and operational runbooks.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in software development engineering.
  • 3+ years of experience in Python, Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Strong focus on building and maintaining production applications and distributed systems.

Nice to Have:

  • Algorithmic thinking and experience with data partitioning and event-driven streaming.
  • Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, gRPC, and OTLP.
  • Experience with Git, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
  • Solid proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or Scala, with hands-on experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.

Pay Transparency:

  • Primary Location Base Pay Range: $148,000 USD - $222,000 USD
  • Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • LangSmith
  • LangChain
  • Apache Kafka
  • Spark pipelines

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