# Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,000 USD - $222,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Software-Development-Engineer--Admin-Central_JR-0111194?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/software-development-engineer-1af740a0-14f/

## 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

For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/).

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- Go
- Scala
- Kafka
- Spark/Flink
- ClickHouse
- S3
- RESTful APIs
- gRPC
- OTLP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS infrastructure

### Nice to have
- LangSmith
- LangChain
- Apache Kafka
- Spark pipelines

---

Source: [Apply at workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Software-Development-Engineer--Admin-Central_JR-0111194?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)