Senior Software Engineer Data Platform and Agent Trust

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Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

In this role you will contribute to a cloud ops platform that enables ingestion of data from internal and external producers computes and aggregate meaningful curated data sets the surfaces these sets to Workday Front-End components or as embedded contextual data for AI/ML inference generation and agentic workflows.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 6 years of experience in Software Engineering Distributed Systems or a related field

• 3 years proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Java Scala Python

• 3 years in cloud engineering or related field(s)

• Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS GCP)

• Experience with at least one of these data engineering technologies: Apache Spark Apache Iceberg Kubernetes Terraform AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Other Qualifications:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience

• Experience in delivering a service from writing code to deploying in production: continuous integration (Jenkins) virtualisation (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes Terraform)

• Experience utilizing AI-Code Generation tools such as ClaudeCode Windsurf Cursor etc

• Experience creating scalable service endpoints to retrieve data

• Track record of working with logging monitoring metrics stats technologies such as: Grafana Prometheus Kibana Hive etc

• Proficient collaborating with teammates to design maintain and improve sophisticated object-oriented software following clean code standard methodology;

• A testing/quality approach - unit system/integration and end-to-end testing TDD feature toggles and canary deployments

• Exposure to operating system concepts covering memory and storage threading and concurrency networking and sockets and process management

• An understanding and experience with topics related to performance and scale security availability deployment and operations

• Experience being responsible for a service in production with experience of production triage and on-call

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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