engineering
Posted YesterdaySenior Software Development Engineer - Developer Platform
at Workday
Usa Boulder, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Lead design and implementation of key platform components—including APIs, SDKs, and agentic service integrations—with 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.
- Support developer-facing documentation, onboarding flows, and tooling improvements that make the platform easier to adopt and extend. About You Basic
Requirements
- We’re 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, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.
- 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,
- experience designing, developing, and deploying distributed systems.
- Experience designing and building capabilities for developer platforms, developer portals, or other external‑facing surfaces used by third‑party developers or partners. Hands-on
- experience building and operating cloud‑native 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.
- Bachelor’s 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 team—from design through delivery—with 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.
- Cloud certifications (GKE, AWS Solutions Architect, etc.).
Experience
- Qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior‑level ownership of web or platform services in production. 4+ years
Benefits
- In return, we’ll 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Primary Location: USA.CO.Boulder Primary Location Base Pay Range: $168,500 USD - $252,700 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $160,100 USD - $285,100 USD Additional Considerations: The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below: 06/30/2026 Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote.
Additional details
- 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.
- We’re 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 you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back.
- So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.
- We design and deliver the platform capabilities, APIs, SDKs, and developer-facing services that enable external developers and partners to build on Workday products—including 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.