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About the Team
How would you like to build experiences for spaces people use every day, like Slack and Microsoft Teams, as well as emerging AI agentic platforms, so users can get real work done within their flow of work?
The Workday Everywhere team ships software used by millions, at enterprise scale. We work closely with teams across Workday and connect our products to multiple external collaboration and AI platforms. Our work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and integrations, which means you'll collaborate across several teams to align on shared goals and deliver consistent experiences across multiple surfaces.
You'll work on new features and end-to-end experiences, and you'll also help keep things running smoothly as we grow. You'll join a collaborative group that enjoys building together, communicates often, and keeps a pace that's sustainable long-term. If you like solving meaningful problems with kind, capable teammates, we'd love to meet you.
Workmates are expected to spend at least 50% of the time in-person at a Workday office location.
About the Role
As a Software Development Engineer on Workday Everywhere, you'll help build and ship end-to-end features that customers use in their daily work. You'll partner closely with product and engineering teams to design, implement, and test solutions, and you'll help keep our systems reliable as we scale.
We foster a collaborative environment where your ideas for improving team productivity, job enjoyment, and code quality are highly valued, all while having fun engineering software that makes a real impact.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with product management and engineering peers to thoroughly design, build, and test comprehensive product features
• Continuously testing, refactoring, and maintaining code
• Writing robust, maintainable code, and refactoring to ensure quality and efficiency
• Actively participating in code reviews

About You
Sr. Associate Software Development Engineer:
Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in Software Engineering
• 2+ years of work experience in both front-end and back-end engineering
• 1+ years of work experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript code

Software Development Engineer:
Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of work experience in Software Engineering
• 2+ years of work experience with Javascript and/or Typescript code
• 2+ years of work experience in both front-end and back-end engineering
• 2+ years of experience with AWS or similar public cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure), including deploying, monitoring, and maintaining applications in these environments
• 2+ years of working experience in DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. CDK and Terraform)

Preferred Qualifications

• Writing quality and well tested code excites you
• Experience with both front-end development and server or backend development is a plus
• Strong belief in automation and experience building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Github Actions
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience with writing production quality code in TypeScript
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
• You have delivered several production quality applications and know how to maintain and support them
• Strong communicator that can drive technical and strategic discussions with extended organization
• A desire to think deeply about user experience and provide feedback on design and UX to create intuitive workflows.
• Familiarity with monitoring/operational tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana) is a plus
• Experience with Azure, Google Workspace, and/or Salesforce administration is a plus

• Experience with event-driven systems (pub/sub, queues, webhooks) is a plus
• Experience with Workday tenant configuration (security and business process setup) is a plus
• Experience with Workday's XO language and OMS/event flows is a plus

• Familiarity building integrations or skills/actions for AI assistants or agentic platforms is a plus
• Familiarity with agent standards and protocols such as MCP and A2A protocols is a plus

Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate's compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday's comprehensive benefits, please click here.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $148,000 USD - $222,000 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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