Senior Software Development Engineer, Workday
$172.8-259.2k
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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
$172.8-259.2k
More information about location
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 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.
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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