Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday
$172.8-259.2k
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Office located in Pleasanton, CA
Enterprise management cloud platform
Open for applications
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172.8-259.2k
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on designing, coding, and testing large-scale applications
- Proficiency in Python and data libraries, such as pandas and pyarrow
- Experience with full-stack development in TypeScript, including UI/UX and API layer
- Strong foundation in React core concepts and web frameworks (Vite, NextJS, etc)
- Experience deploying to and maintaining services on AWS infrastructure (EKS, S3, Secrets Manager, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, etc.)
- Extensive background using VSCode + GitHub as a development environment
- Solid understanding of SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and ORMs/ODMs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity)
- Commitment to security best practices and testing frameworks
Desirable
- Dbt and large-scale ETL pipeline orchestration in Airflow
- Open table formats for partitioned parquet files, e.g. Hive, Delta Lake, and Iceberg
- Kubernetes and setting up EKS clusters
- VSCode extension development
- AWS Marketplace packaging and deployment
- UI/UX wireframing
- Developing customer-facing UIs or configuration portals
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation, AWS SAM)
- Contributing to and/or maintaining open source projects on GitHub
- Seamlessly incorporating LLMs into the development process, with extra points for having built LLM wrappers that provide added context to improve outputs
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Development Engineer within our Performance Tools Platform team, you’ll be responsible for continuously improving the technology behind our data analytics stack
- In this role, you’ll work with a combination of open-source frameworks and internally developed tools, iterating on feature requests from users while scaling the underlying infrastructure as Workday grows
- Along the way you’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional partners, helping to maintain an excellent user experience across all stakeholders
- Continuously improve our ETL pipelines, which extract data from petabase-scale sources, transform using SQL models defined by our users, and load the results into partitioned storage locations optimized for both compression and query speed
- Design and develop user interfaces which simplify the creation of new SQL models in our pipeline, democratizing the ability to extend our datasets for additional use cases
- Enhance our development environments using the VSCode Extension API
- Expand upon existing data tests, CI/CD checks, access controls, and user/developer documentation, to continue scaling our tools as robust products in production
- Programming Languages: Typescript, Python
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
- Data Stack: dbt, Trino, Apache Airflow, Lightdash
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Database: MySQL, PostgresSQL
- Open Table Formats: Hive, Delta Lake, Iceberg
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. .
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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 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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