# P4 Senior 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

**Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/P4-Sr-Software-Development-Engineer_JR-0110776?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- GoLang
- Java/C++
- Site Reliability Engineering
- DevOps
- platform engineering
- infrastructure engineering
- production operations
- distributed microservices architectures
- performance engineering
- profiling
- APM tools

### Nice to have
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- New Relic
- ELK
- Jenkins
- Helm
- Argo CD
- Argo Workflows
- Kustomize
- Java-based applications
- Maven
- Gradle

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