Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday
Machine Learning
$132.8-230.4k
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Enterprise management cloud platform
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Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$132.8-230.4k
Salary is partially dependant on applicant’s location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience with production software development
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Strong understanding of scalable architecture and performance optimization for web applications
- Strong sense of ownership and delivery of finished products. A balance between craftsmanship and the need to ship products to customers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a strong focus on team success and customer impact
- Experience with full stack engineering, including front-end frameworks (e.g. React), database technologies, and API development
- Experience building Spark-based data pipelines
- Experience deploying production services to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and using containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- Do you want to build impactful, machine learning features and solutions that will be used by millions of end-users?
- The ML Core team solves challenging problems that lie at the intersection of machine learning and enterprise-scale software
- The team is responsible for building sophisticated machine learning solutions that power the core Workday software by modeling user behavior and providing intelligent automation
- Come join us and make easier and balanced for millions of Workday users!
- In this software engineering role, you will work with machine learning engineers to build, test, and deploy agentic solutions
- You will be part of a fast-paced team with a startup-like mentality
- In the early stages of the project you will rapidly iterate on prototypes and proof-of-concepts, and in the later stages you will build robust, scalable solutions
- Build and deploy Python and Spark-based ETL pipelines for collecting, joining, transforming, and loading data used for model training and inference
- Build and deploy secure, restful web services in Python and Kubernetes that run the agents and invoke actions
- Design and implement a multitenant runtime architecture that enables fast inference, scales to millions of users, and integrates with existing Workday components
- Build React-based interactive prototypes/demos for showcasing and evaluating the agents
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including machine learning engineers, product managers, and UX designers
- Take ownership for finding creative solutions that move projects forward
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices in software engineering, including automation, observability, and scalability
- Conduct code reviews, participate in design discussions, and engage in collaborative team activities like hackathons and knowledge-sharing sessions
Application process
- End Date: February 7, 2025
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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back within 2 weeks
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan 🇺🇸
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office) 🇺🇸
Company values
- Employees - Most fundamentally, people are the core of our business. Without them, we would not have a business. We hire the best and expect great accomplishments
- Customer service - Every investment and decision we make has our customers in mind, and we pull out all stops to make the satisfaction of our customers paramount
- Innovation - We aim for innovation not only in our development organization but also in the way we approach all aspects of our business
- Integrity - We say what we mean, and mean what we say. We stick to our commitments, treat everyone equitably, and communicate openly and honestly
- Fun - We also feel it’s important to have a sense of humor. We like to laugh—it makes our work that much more enjoyable. We also invest in community and company events that help our employees and their families feel a connection to Workday beyond business as usual
- Profitability - Long-term economic success is what helps us provide employees and customers with the best productivity tools, solutions, and services. While important, profitability is not why we exist. Simply put, at Workday we exist to make and provide great products and services
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
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Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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