Software Development Engineer- Demand Capacity

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About the Team

The Demand Capacity org is responsible for some of Workday’s core service orchestration technologies, which are deployed in Workday’s data center and public cloud environments. We provide orchestration solutions for other Workday development and operations teams, allowing us to reach the next level of scale.
Within this team, we are responsible for Workday’s optimized job processing platform, which performs some of the largest customer jobs in Workday. We are a core part of the Workday stack, working with concurrent and distributed systems to provide this background job processing platform for our internal and external customers.
Our platform performs mission critical processing for our customers and has a key role in the scalability of Workday’s platform. The team is constantly innovating and evolving to build the next generation of critical Workday services.

About the Role

You will be responsible for designing and developing scalable components, microservices and libraries using our technology stack in a highly distributed environment.  Among other technologies, we frequently use Scala, Akka, Gradle, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, ZooKeeper and Linux.

The role will involve designing, developing and deploying a critical production service, including working on highly concurrent transaction processing, distributed memory management, communication protocols, and algorithms for distributed processing.

About You

Basic Qualifications: (Required)

• 5 years of experience with Scala, or advanced Java/functional programming.
• 3 years of experience in one or more of the following technologies: Akka, Kafka or Zookeeper.
• 4 years of experience working with automated or web testing software and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Gradle, etc)

Other Qualifications:

• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related fields.
• Experience with distributed, concurrent, high-performance systems.
• Strong experience with HTTP, REST, XML, JSON and other key web frameworks
• Test focused with good TDD / Unit & System Testing, debugging and profiling skills
• Experienced with common IDE & build tools (e.g. IntelliJ, Git, Gradle, maven, TeamCity, Artifactory)
• Good code review skills and capacity to both provide and act on constructive feedback
• Strong collaboration, communication and leadership skills
• Have a passion for developing distributed systems and delivering them at scale while planning for future growth.
• Craft and develop enterprise solutions with high quality standards and advocate continuous delivery

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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: $128,800 USD - $193,200 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $128,800 - $193,200 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

05/16/2025

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