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Workday

Sr Software Development Engineer, Business Process Optimization

$148K–$264K

USA, CA, Pleasanton · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
8+ years in software development engineering, including at least 5+ years focused on complex distributed systems; 5+ years of production-grade coding in at least two listed languages.
Education
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience; Master's in Computer Science or Distributed Systems strongly preferred.

About the job

Build and operate the distributed systems, data pipelines, and observability platform behind Workday’s agentic workflow and analytics products.

What you'll do

  • Design scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and high-throughput data ingestion pipelines.
  • Extend tracing and telemetry to monitor AI agents, tool calls, and LLM workflows; optimize queries and data retention.
  • Develop gRPC and REST APIs and contribute to technical design, testing, CI/CD, and multi-region reliability.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years in software development engineering, including at least 5+ years designing, building, and operating complex distributed systems with high availability and fault tolerance.
  • 5+ years writing production-grade code in at least two of Java, Go, Scala, or Python.
  • Experience with gRPC, REST, and OTLP, plus distributed load/integration testing and CI/CD automation.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Master's in Computer Science or Distributed Systems.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and technically leading cross-functional teams.

Pay

$176,000 USD - $264,000 USD (base salary); $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Java, Go, Scala, Python, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark/Flink, Apache Iceberg

AI focus

Build an agentic workflow and analytics platform; extend observability and tracing to AI agents, LLM workflows, tool calls, and prompt/response chains, integrating with LangSmith and LangChain.

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