Senior Software Development Engineer Developer Platform
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Boulder, CO - USA
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Job Summary
Your work days are brighter here.
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
The Developer Platform team is building the foundation for Workdays open developer ecosystem. We design and deliver the platform capabilities APIs SDKs and developer-facing services that enable external developers and partners to build on Workday productsincluding Peakon HiredScore VNDLY and more. Our mission is to make the platform reliable extensible and straightforward for developers to adopt and extend.We work closely with principal engineers product managers and cross-functional teams to turn platform growth goals into well-scoped high-quality engineering work. We care deeply about technical craft give direct and constructive feedback and celebrate shipping capabilities that developers actually want to use. If you are energized by hands-on platform implementation contributing to architecture decisions and helping other engineers grow you will find a collaborative team that values thoughtful execution and makes the work enjoyable along the way.
About the Role
As a Senior Development Engineer on the Developer Platform team you will design and build core platform capabilities that advance Workday toward a more extensible developer-friendly ecosystem. You will deliver high-impact technical work contribute to architecture and API/SDK design and collaborate across product and engineering teams to ship reliable scalable services consumed by internal and external developers.
In this role you will:
Contribute to and execute on the technical strategy for the Workday Developer Portal and adjacent services implementing platform capabilities that enable external developers and partners to build across Workday products.
Lead design and implementation of key platform componentsincluding APIs SDKs and agentic service integrationswith a strong emphasis on scalability reliability and developer experience.
Collaborate closely with principal engineers product managers and cross-functional teams to translate platform growth goals into well-scoped executable engineering work.
Uphold API governance and engineering best practices within your team including versioning backward compatibility and security standards for public-facing surfaces.
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review design feedback and pairing and help raise the technical bar on the team.
Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to build-vs-integrate decisions for platform components with grounding in real-world tradeoffs of scale and maintainability.
Support developer-facing documentation onboarding flows and tooling improvements that make the platform easier to adopt and extend.
About You
Basic Qualifications
8 years of software engineering experience including seniorlevel ownership of web or platform services in production.
4 years experience designing developing and deploying distributed systems.
Experience designing and building capabilities for developer platforms developer portals or other externalfacing surfaces used by thirdparty developers or partners.
Hands-on experience building and operating cloudnative services (for example on GCP AWS or Azure) including responsibility for availability performance and basic observability (logging metrics and alerting).
Experience working with modern web technologies and APIs (for example TypeScript/JavaScript React and REST/GraphQL) in a production environment.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Other Qualifications
Clear understanding of developer experience (DX) as a quality bar with the ability to apply that lens when making design and implementation decisions for platform capabilities.
Hands-on expertise with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes including the ability to deploy operate and troubleshoot production services on GCP AWS or Azure.
Strong API design fundamentals including REST GraphQL OAuth 2.0/OIDC and versioning best practices with the ability to apply these to build reliable well-documented public APIs.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical work end-to-end within a teamfrom design through deliverywith minimal oversight and sound judgment on scope tradeoffs and quality.
Experience building software consumed by external developers or partners in an enterprise SaaS environment with an understanding of the reliability and compatibility expectations that public platform surfaces require.
Experience mentoring engineers through code review design feedback and pairing with the ability to raise the technical bar on a team through example and constructive guidance.
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to adapt style to different audiences and collaborate effectively across product engineering and developer-facing teams.
The following are advantageous but not required:
Exposure to agentic AI capabilities including LLM-backed services agent frameworks or tool-use patterns (e.g. MCP).
Familiarity with enterprise HCM talent or workforce management domains.
Experience working with developer portals API catalogs or self-serve onboarding tooling.
Background in multi-product or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
Interest in developer relations or technical writing including contributing to docs guides or developer-facing content.
Cloud certifications (GKE AWS Solutions Architect etc.).
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. 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.
Primary Location:Additional Considerations:
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
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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About Company
Seamlessly manage your people, money, and agents on an open, unified platform with AI at the core. It’s a new work day.
