Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer, Workday

SRE

$138.2-207.4k

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Gradle

Kotlin

Jenkins

Azure

SpringBoot

Senior and Expert level

Denver

Office located in Boulder, CO

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

Job no longer available

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$138.2-207.4k

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Java

Gradle

Kotlin

Jenkins

Azure

SpringBoot

Senior and Expert level

Denver

Office located in Boulder, CO

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Company mission

To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have proven yourself as a Software Engineer, developing multiple large scale Java-based web services and supporting them in production. You have stories to tell about production issues and your experiences have taught you how to solve difficult problems and, more importantly, how to pro-actively design solutions to prevent them
5+ years in a Software Engineering role, developing cloud-scale web services with language skills like Java / Kotlin and Spring Boot
Experience with Service Ownership; Monitoring & Alerting, Incident Response, Capacity Planning and Release Management
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across the organization
Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools: Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breaker, Bulkheads, Timeouts, Rate Limiting
JVM Performance Analysis
Cloud-providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

What the job involves

As a Senior Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you will operate across the Productivity Technology organization and partner with internal and external organizations. You will work with collaborators to ensure alignment between the organizations and our product teams, and contribute directly to key strategic efforts.
You will model and mentor technical talent across Productivity Technology to ensure operational concerns are influential across our organization. You will have a chance to have a very broad strategic impact across engineers and make a difference to our business
As a Senior Engineer, you will partner with Service Owners to ensure that services are designed and built for resilience, performance and scalability:
Define standards for designing, building, operating and monitoring highly scalable and resilient services
Establish common SLIs and SLOs
Work with service teams to ensure production services have reliability "built-in"
Solve complex scale and reliability issues

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

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.1)

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 & CEO)

Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.

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