Workday

Software Development Engineer, Product Engineering – Agent‑Ready APIs & Data

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3 days ago
Pleasanton, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain product APIs and backend services.
  • Implement routing, validation, authentication and authorization, transformation, and error handling.
  • Build high-throughput, low-latency, resilient, scalable, and fault-tolerant components and integrations.
  • Apply API contracts and governance using OpenAPI/Swagger and internal standards.
  • Build frameworks and tooling for defining, publishing, and maintaining REST, SOAP, and Graph APIs.
  • Use metrics, tracing, and logging to improve production performance and reliability.
  • Write documented, testable code and contribute unit, integration, contract, and performance tests.
  • Own small to medium services or API areas from design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and support.
  • Participate in design and code reviews, documentation, talks, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of software engineering experience building scalable backend services or platforms.
  • At least 3 years of experience with TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.
  • At least 2 years of experience with web service or API technologies such as REST, SOAP, JSON, XML Schema, WSDL, or GraphQL.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
  • Understanding of algorithms, distributed systems, API gateway responsibilities, API specifications and lifecycle, testing methodologies, source control, and modern development tooling.
  • Experience with testing tools such as JUnit, ScalaTest, Postman, Mockito, and coverage tools.
  • Exposure to AWS or Kubernetes, and familiarity with MCP or similar integration models, are preferred.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and interest in agentic AI are expected.

Benefits

  • Flexible work combines remote and in-person work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or field for applicable roles.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable workplace accommodations.

Tech Stack

AWSGitGradleGraphQLJUnitKubernetesPostmanPythonSOAPTypeScript

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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