Senior Principal Architect, Workday
Observability
$261.8-392.6k
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$261.8-392.6k
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
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Must have at least 10+ years of software engineering/architect background and a proven track record of delivering high quality products at massive scale
- Ideal candidate has 10+ years' experience writing high quality code (Java/Scala/Go/Python) and be able to design systems that meet the business needs
- You have hands-on expertise in Observability platforms like Prometheus, Mimir, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger/Zipkin etc
- You want to tackle exciting challenges at massive scale across private and public clouds for our 10000+ global customers
- You want to work with world class engineers and facilitate the development of the next generation Distributed systems platforms
- Extensive experience with data collection agents, loggers, and visualizing and correlating data sets from multiple domains
- Expertise in LLM orchestration framework(LangChain etc,), Observability for AI Agents(Latency, quality, online/offline evals, Track multi-turn conversations, tool/agent invocations etc)
- Experience building Observability agents that help with Triage, Root Cause Analysis using open standards like Skills, MCPs and popular orchestration frameworks like LangChain etc
- You have deployed Observability across the OSI stack
- Expertise in low-latency/high throughput data processing capabilities a big plus
- Open Source contributions to popular O11y frameworks & platforms are a big plus
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences
- You have strong communication skills both written and verbal
What the job involves
- Data Platform and Observability Engineering team empowers our customers and workmates with resilient, secure, massively scalable distributed systems, real-time observability, and operational analytics — enabling product innovation, faster problem resolution, seamless operations and data driven decisions
- Our focus is on the development of large scale distributed data systems to support critical Workday products and provide real-time insights across Workday’s platforms, infrastructure and applications
- The team provides platforms that process Petabytes of data that enable core Workday products and use cases like core HCM, Fins, AI/ML skus, internal data products and Observability
- If you enjoy writing efficient software or tuning and scaling large distributed systems you will enjoy working with us
- This is a hands-on role, where you will be responsible for the architecture, standards, best practices for all things Observability at Workday
- You will spend your time by working closely with the Observability Platform engineers, product managers, stakeholders, evolving the platform architecture, contributing to the Observability platform and acting as an evangelist for the platform
- Here are some of the things you will be doing:
- This is a hands-on role, where you will provide architectural leadership for Workday’s Observability Platform and Services
- You will be the domain expert across all the pillars of Observability
- Drive Agentic experiences for incident detection, triage, and recovery - by owning & driving the Observability MCP and Observability Agents
- Ensure a seamless Observability experience across data domains (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) and different infrastructure types (Virtualized, Kubernetes, Bare metal, etc)
- Drive standardization of the Observability tooling, develop and publish standards, leverage open source specifications (OpenTelemetry etc)
- Closely collaborate with the Infrastructure, Technology Operations & Product teams
- Promote & Evangelize Observability to all Workday engineering teams
- Establish standard processes, frameworks, and help onboard engineering teams
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 & CEO)Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.
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