Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, Workday

$196-294k

AWS

GCP

Python

Java

Splunk

ELK

Hadoop

Spark

Grafana

Gatling

Hive

Tomcat

Postman

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Pleasanton, CA

Enterprise management cloud platform

Job no longer available

Enterprise management cloud platform

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$196-294k

AWS

GCP

Python

Java

Splunk

ELK

Hadoop

Spark

Grafana

Gatling

Hive

Tomcat

Postman

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Pleasanton, CA

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Company mission

To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7-+ years of object oriented programming experience in a JVM language, Java, C#, Python etc
Have 3 + yrs of experience as a Principal Engineer with exp in High Availability, Resiliency and Chaos Engineering
Have 4+ yrs of experience with operations and Scalability study of large scale distributed systems and micro services architecture
Experience in large Cloud Deployment and cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP
Experience with Data Science and Big Data technologies, Hadoop, Spark/ Spark native, Hive
Experience in Application code profiling and performance tuning
Experience in Observability stack such as ELK, Grafana, Splunk
Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field

Desirable

Experience working with AI and/ or Machine Learning
Experience with Automation and profiling tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, Jmeter, Load-runner, Gatling, JProfiler, Jconsole, and system tools vmstat/top
Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Evaluation
Ability to take a leadership role in projects that span multiple teams with the ability to deliver in an agile environment
Superb written and verbal communication skills

What the job involves

Workday is looking for an outstanding Sr Principal or Principal Performance Engineer to join our Tools Performance Engineering team
Work effectively in an agile team to define, build, deploy and own new features
Drive and support innovation and continuously deliver improvement ideas
Own the design and delivery of technical solutions. Have fun engineering software
Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment
Collaborate with architects, principal engineers and technical product managers to analyze functional requirements, devise architecture designs that provide real scalability, low latency, and high availability
Be responsible for system performance and stability by proactively identifying and diagnosing issues and rapidly identifying root cause to address production issues
Characterize Performance, Scalability and Resiliency to stakeholders
Be an evangelist of our Technologies and Products. Influence and collaborate across teams
Define/validate the charter of Future technology and methodology
Participate in escalations to drive the technical conversations
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers

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. .

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

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 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 HQ

Pleasanton, CA

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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