Sr Software Development Engineer, Product Engineering – API Platform & Agentic AI

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About the Team

About the Role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Product Engineering you will be a technical leader in designing and delivering highthroughput lowlatency APIs and frameworks that support Workdays next generation of products and agents. You will shape API design drive performance and observability improvements and coach and grow future senior engineers across the team.

You will:

• Lead design and implementation of APIs and platform features used by Product Engineering teams.
• Champion consistent API standards patterns and tooling that align with crossorg guidance while solving concrete product needs.
• Help Product Engineering teams expose capabilities via REST GraphQL and emerging integration patterns in a way that is friendly to agents and external consumers.

What youll do

• Lead endtoend design and development of complex backend services and APIs.
• Drive consensus with product managers architects and partner teams to define clear evolvable API contracts and data models using OpenAPI and internal standards.
• Drive performance and scalability improvements including latency optimization capacity planning and resiliency strategies for missioncritical product flows.
• Design and implement observability for product APIs (metrics tracing structured logging) and use data to drive technical decisions and SLOs.
• Collaborate on frameworks tools and patterns that make it simpler for other Product Engineering teams to define publish and maintain APIs.
• Work with data platform teams to define patterns for exposing data safely and efficiently to API and agent workflows.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews RFCs spike investigations and coaching junior engineers.
• Participate in and improve oncall and incident response processes; own root cause analysis and longterm remediation for significant issues.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to teams across Product Engineering helping them make API and integration decisions.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8years experience in software development engineering architecting building and scaling robust and efficient software systems.
• 5 years experience in the following programming languages and technologies:TypeScriptorPython.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications

• Strong ability in Algorithmic Thinking including advanced data structures and algorithms such as graphs concurrent data structures and caching/eviction strategies to design and optimize solutions for complex API orchestration request routing and high-throughput workloads.
• Solid experience with API Development including REST SOAP and GraphQL OpenAPI/Swagger-driven design and experience in designing and building scalable secure APIs and API integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of Code Testing methodologies such as contract testing performance testing and system/integration testing and experience with advanced testing tools or frameworks (e.g. JUnit ScalaTest Postman Mockito and coverage tools such as Jacoco or Scoverage).
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles like SOLID domain-driven design concepts and common architectural patterns (e.g. layered architecture hexagonal architecture) and their application in designing scalable software architectures.
• Solid understanding of Software Development principles and advanced development methodologies such as continuous delivery trunk-based development and test-driven or behavior-driven development.
• Solid experience with Source Control Management (SCM) tools such as Git and advanced branching and merging strategies across multiple teams or services.
• Proven ability to lead Team Collaboration within a software development team and mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Strong skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation for comprehensive technical specifications design documents RFCs and API and integration best-practice guides.
• Experience leveraging AIassisted code generation and review tools (e.g. Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot) to improve development speed and quality.
• Exposure to MCP or similar models is a strong plus.

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.

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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