About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500.
About The Role
As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday, you will be part of the Workday Architecture Group, which performs research on Workday’s future architecture, including building out proof of concepts and early products. If you appreciate the elegance and complexity of a highly available, scalable, secure, open and modern distributed platform and can perform quick yet accurate implementations, then this role could be a good fit.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the design of Workday’s future architecture
- Write code, develop tools, and perform other software engineering tasks necessary to prove out the architecture, in an iterative, agile environment
- Be able to move fast, yet generate high quality output, knowing that iteration is an important aspect of our development process
- Document design and code for maintainability
- Contribute ideas for continually improving the team's productivity, job enjoyment, and code quality
- 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 deploying code to address issues
- Be an enthusiast of our technologies and products. Influence and collaborate across functional teams in coming together towards a common business goal and data architecture
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience with operations, development, and testing of large scale distributed systems in production environments using Java or another JVM-based language such as Scala or Kotlin
- 2+ years of experience with performance optimization techniques and tools for analyzing and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks across the entire software stack
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule
- Hybrid work environment
Location
This position is based in Pleasanton, California, USA.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Flexible work schedule
- Hybrid work environment
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