# Senior Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join our Product Engineering team. You'll help design and build high-throughput, low-latency APIs and backend services that power Workday's next-generation products and agents.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design and development of APIs, backend services, and platform features used across Product Engineering.

- Turn product requirements into clear service boundaries, domain models, and well-designed API endpoints.

- Help expose product capabilities through REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and emerging integration patterns.

- Improve performance and scalability through latency optimization, capacity planning, caching, and resiliency patterns.

- Build observability into product APIs , metrics, tracing, logging, and dashboards.

- Support design reviews, code reviews, and technical documentation, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

- Participate in on-call and incident response, including root cause analysis and long-term fixes.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development engineering.

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering with hands-on experience in object-oriented modeling and software design concepts.

- Experience designing API endpoints that expose product functionality clearly, consistently, securely, and at scale.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Nice to Have:

- Skilled in algorithmic thinking, including advanced data structures and algorithms.

- Solid experience with API development, including REST, SOAP, GraphQL, OpenAPI/Swagger-driven design.

- Experience creating API endpoints that map clearly to product functionality, domain concepts, and customer-facing workflows.

- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale systems with complex product domains.

- In-depth understanding of code testing methodologies and advanced testing tools.

- Practical experience applying domain-driven design concepts and object-oriented modeling.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($176,000 - $264,000 USD).

- Annual refresh stock grants.

- Comprehensive benefits package.

- Flexible work arrangements , spend at least half (50%) of your time each quarter in the office or in the field.

## Skills

### Required
- Object-oriented design principles
- Domain modeling
- API design
- REST
- GraphQL
- SOAP
- OpenAPI
- Software development engineering
- Algorithmic thinking
- Data structures and algorithms

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted code generation and review tools
- MCP or similar agent/tool integration models
- Contract testing
- Performance testing
- System testing
- Integration testing
- JUnit
- ScalaTest
- Postman
- Mockito
- Jacoco
- Scoverage

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