3 days ago
Base Salary
$173k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve API architecture, standards, governance, review processes, and lifecycle policies across Product Engineering.
- Partner with product and engineering teams on domain models, service boundaries, object models, backend services, API endpoints, and integration flows.
- Establish standards for OpenAPI contracts, resource modeling, authentication and authorization, multi-tenancy, error handling, retries, idempotency, versioning, and deprecation.
- Shape API roadmaps, identify duplication and gaps, and drive convergence on shared patterns and building blocks across product areas.
- Define reference architectures for agent-ready APIs, orchestration, data-centric APIs, observability, latency, and Data Cloud or SQL projections.
- Lead critical cross-team API design reviews and make high-impact architecture decisions.
- Evaluate tools for API design, testing, catalogs, connectors, and developer tooling.
- Mentor senior engineers and managers, build API communities of practice, and communicate API strategy to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building large-scale, mission-critical backend systems and APIs with cross-team or organization-wide API or platform architecture responsibility.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on object-oriented modeling and software design experience.
- 5+ years of experience designing secure, consistent, scalable API endpoints that expose product functionality.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep experience using Java, TypeScript, or Python to build maintainable web services and APIs across REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Experience setting and driving technical standards across multiple teams, including API governance, contract review, documentation, and lifecycle management.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud architectures, high-throughput and low-latency services, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, edge and gateway patterns, and multi-tenant systems.
- Experience designing API observability with metrics, tracing, logging, and SLO monitoring.
- Experience with AI-assisted code generation and review tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
- Familiarity with agentic AI use cases, LLM and agent integration patterns, data platforms, analytical stores, and safely exposing data through APIs.
- Ability to collaborate across Product Engineering, platform teams, and business stakeholders, communicate complex technical topics clearly, and mentor staff-level engineers and managers.
Benefits
- Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
- Eligibility may include the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission or bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Workday provides equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the application process.
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