Workday

Sr. Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

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5 days ago
Boulder, CO, USA +2 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $285k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing services.
  • Own distributed tracing end to end, including instrumentation, context propagation, and trace-based diagnosis.
  • Build data capture, collection, metrics ingestion, alerting, dashboard lifecycle, and real-time and batch processing systems.
  • Instrument AI-powered workflows for performance, cost, quality, and multi-step orchestration.
  • Apply anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and automated root-cause analysis to observability systems.
  • Define SLOs, SLIs, and production-readiness criteria with product and application teams.
  • Deploy infrastructure components to production, evaluate cloud-native tools, and participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering and design experience for the senior-level role.
  • At least 7 years of coding experience in Python, Go, or Java.
  • Experience with Linux, distributed tracing concepts, tracing tools, time-series databases, document stores, and log collection systems.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP and native observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch and GCP Cloud Operations.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, service mesh, Prometheus, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and agentic AI build patterns.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience; a master’s degree is a plus.
  • Strong interpersonal, technical, communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid Flex Work schedule with up to 50% remote work and at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission or bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations.
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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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