Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer, SRE

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About the Team

The Productivity Technology team primarily builds platform systems and components to support our application and customers. We own and advocate for effective platforms, frameworks, and products. We use a wide range of technologies to achieve our objectives, and need to influence their direction, help our teams with effective adoption, and ultimately create great experiences for our users while also maintaining the pace of innovation with our development teams. Many of our platforms and frameworks are used extensively across Workday, and we continue to look for ways to break down technical barriers and strengthen our existing systems.
We are putting together an expert team who will take a data-driven approach to understanding and improving the performance and reliability of our existing services to establish standards and ensure these best-practices are built-in to new services.

About the Role

Our Productivity Technology team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record in architecting and implementing highly scalable, resilient and secure cloud solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you will operate across the Productivity Technology organization and partner with internal and external organizations. You will work with collaborators to ensure alignment between the organizations and our product teams, and contribute directly to key strategic efforts. You will model and mentor technical talent across Productivity Technology to ensure operational concerns are influential across our organization. You will have a chance to have a very broad strategic impact across engineers and make a difference to our business.

As a Senior Engineer, you will partner with Service Owners to ensure that services are designed and built for resilience, performance and scalability:

• Define standards for designing, building, operating and monitoring highly scalable and resilient services.

• Establish common SLIs and SLOs

• Work with service teams to ensure production services have reliability "built-in".

• Solve complex scale and reliability issues

We offer a hybrid working model and are committed to supporting work-life balance.

About You

You have proven yourself as a Software Engineer, developing multiple large scale Java-based web services and supporting them in production. You have stories to tell about production issues and your experiences have taught you how to solve difficult problems and, more importantly, how to pro-actively design solutions to prevent them.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Software Engineering role, in cloud-scale web services with language skills like Java / Kotlin and Spring Boot

• 5+ years in Site Reliability working in enterprise class environments

• Experience with Service Ownership; Monitoring & Alerting, Incident Response, Capacity Planning and Release Management

• ​AWS experience and some software development is required

Other Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across the organization

• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools: Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes

• Resilience Patterns: Circuit Breaker, Bulkheads, Timeouts, Rate Limiting

• JVM Performance Analysis

• Cloud-providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

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 candidate’s 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 Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CO.Boulder

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $138,200 USD - $207,400 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $131,300 USD - $233,300 USD

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $138,200 - $207,400 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

04/25/2025

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re 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 you'll 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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