Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, Workday
$196-294k
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
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
$196-294k
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
- 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.
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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