Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer, Workday
SRE
$138.2-207.4k
Office located in Boulder, CO
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
$138.2-207.4k
Office located in Boulder, CO
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 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
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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