Senior Software Development Engineer, SRE

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

The Productivity Technologies team within Workday builds and operates products and services ranging from email and messaging services to sophisticated spreadsheets and print integrations to video streaming services, among many others. We work across the full stack at Workday, from frontend to backend, applying both public cloud and other 3rd-party integrations. This range of products and technologies ensures there's never a dull moment!

About the Role

This role will handle the operations of many of our team’s services, sitting in the intersection between our development teams and our partners in infrastructure. Your partnership with these teams will drive improvements to our architecture and operating practices with the goal of enabling the smooth operation of our services for our customers. It will also handle on-call support for these services in conjunction with our service and infrastructure teams.

This role will be most successful when addressing a given service’s challenges with a sense of ownership, while also driving the same sense of ownership with other teams which contribute to it.

About You

Do you love troubleshooting complex systems? Working in partnership with others to brainstorm, identify, and complete improvements in our software and supporting systems? Do you have a track record of automating away repetitive tasks?

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

• 2 years of experience leading projects and providing technical leadership.

Other Qualifications

• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Hands-on operational experience with large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting public cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Experience instrumenting applications for observability, including metrics collection, logging, and tracing.

• Experience with capacity planning and performance optimization of distributed systems.

• Knowledge of incident management processes and post-incident analysis.

• Experience in automating operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.

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: $153,600 USD - $230,400 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $145,900 USD - $259,200 USD

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $153,600 - $230,400 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

06/07/2025

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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