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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$176,000 USD - $264,000 USD per year

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Description

We're seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to join the Intelligent Experience Platform (IXP) team at Workday. You'll contribute to building, scaling, and maintaining Workday's messaging platform and services spanning SMS, WhatsApp, Push notifications, and Email.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain critical components of Workday's enterprise messaging and email platform
  • Develop and scale core multi-channel messaging services, templates, and deliverability infrastructure
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Design, Security, and engineering team members to deliver high-quality email capabilities
  • Ensure code quality, security, performance, resilience, and testability across all owned platform services
  • Participate in technology evaluations and third-party messaging and email provider integrations
  • Help shape team engineering practices, participate in code and design reviews, and mentor junior engineers

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of related software engineering experience
  • 5+ years in modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, or C++)
  • 5+ year experience designing and building scalable distributed systems

Nice to Have:

  • Technical Execution and Strategy
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Engineering Excellence
  • Pragmatic Problem Solving
  • Teamwork and Mentorship
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

Skills

Required

Nice to have

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