Workday
Sr. Software Engineer - Distributed Systems
$160K–$285K
USA, CA, Santa Clara +2 · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- USA, CA, Santa Clara
USA, CO, Boulder
USA, CA, Pleasanton - Experience
- 8 years of software engineering/design experience and 7 years coding in Python, Go, or Java.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate Workday’s large-scale distributed data and observability platform, including services and tools that monitor, diagnose, and improve production systems and AI-powered workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and real-time or batch data-processing services.
- Develop distributed tracing, metrics pipelines, data collection, dashboards, and production infrastructure across cloud and other environments.
- Apply AI-driven observability, instrument AI workflows, and partner with teams on production readiness; participate in on-call support.
What they ask for
- 8 years of software engineering/design experience.
- 7 years coding in Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience with Linux.
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- MS degree.
- Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and working knowledge of agentic AI build patterns.
Pay
$190,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary); $160,100 USD - $285,100 USD (base salary); $168,500 - $252,700 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Linux, AWS, GCP, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Operations (Stackdriver)
AI focus
Instrument AI-powered and automated workflows for performance, cost, and quality; apply anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and automated root-cause analysis to improve observability.
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