Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- You love building distributed applications that make use of innovative technologies such as containerisation, etc
- You have 5+ years of experience in building high performance data ingestion software and solving for concurrency, latency and efficiency
- You have a strong systems engineering background and a proven track record of delivering high quality products at scale
- You have experience with at least one of the following software development languages (in no particular order): Go, Python and Java
- You have a solid understanding of high performance data capture and collection systems, how to design APIs around these systems, and how to ensure reliable delivery of data
- You have the ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Able to influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people
- You have excellent interpersonal, technical and communication skills
- You understand the internals of big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, ElasticSearch etc
- Experience working with Public cloud (AWS preferred)
- Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes, Containers, Service Mesh and related technologies
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure automation - Terraform, ArgoCD, chef, etc
- Experience in concurrency, algorithms, distributed memory management, communication protocols, distributed programming
- Strong mentoring skills
What the job involves
- You will architect, design and build critical Kubernetes orchestrated Data Platform and Infrastructure services that need high reliability and availability at massive scale
- You will drive significant technology initiatives end to end and across the Workday technology organization
- You will build a distributed and highly available data processing framework for moving massive data from a variety of source systems to various persistence stores
- You will build Stream processing software to ingest, process, enrich and store various data assets
- You will work with all aspects of data processing with a keen eye for data quality, data integrity and data availability
- You will evaluate/implement new open source and cloud native tools and technologies
- You will provide technical leadership and be a role model to software engineers pursuing technical career path in engineering
- You will participate in the on-call rotation supporting the data platform
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.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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