Software Development Engineer, Workday
Workday Everywhere
$148-222k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Be an early applicant
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148-222k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of work experience in Software Engineering
- 2+ years of work experience in both front-end and back-end engineering
- 1+ years of work experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript code
- 5+ years of work experience in Software Engineering
- 2+ years of work experience with Javascript and/or Typescript code
- 2+ years of experience with AWS or similar public cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure), including deploying, monitoring, and maintaining applications in these environments
- 2+ years of working experience in DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. CDK and Terraform)
Desirable
- Writing quality and well tested code excites you
- Experience with both front-end development and server or backend development is a plus
- Strong belief in automation and experience building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Github Actions
- Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Experience with writing production quality code in TypeScript
- Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
- You have delivered several production quality applications and know how to maintain and support them
- Strong communicator that can drive technical and strategic discussions with extended organization
- A desire to think deeply about user experience and provide feedback on design and UX to create intuitive workflows
- Familiarity with monitoring/operational tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana) is a plus
- Experience with Azure, Google Workspace, and/or Salesforce administration is a plus
- Experience with event-driven systems (pub/sub, queues, webhooks) is a plus
- Experience with Workday tenant configuration (security and business process setup) is a plus
- Experience with Workday’s XO language and OMS/event flows is a plus
- Familiarity building integrations or skills/actions for AI assistants or agentic platforms is a plus
- Familiarity with agent standards and protocols such as MCP and A2A protocols is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Software Development Engineer on Workday Everywhere, you’ll help build and ship end-to-end features that customers use in their daily work
- You’ll partner closely with product and engineering teams to design, implement, and test solutions, and you’ll help keep our systems reliable as we scale
- We foster a collaborative environment where your ideas for improving team productivity, job enjoyment, and code quality are highly valued, all while having fun engineering software that makes a real impact
- Collaborating with product management and engineering peers to thoroughly design, build, and test comprehensive product features
- Continuously testing, refactoring, and maintaining code
- Writing robust, maintainable code, and refactoring to ensure quality and efficiency
- Actively participating in code reviews
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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