Workday

Workday

Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

USA, CO, Boulder · Senior

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

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Workday, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Software Developers in Boulder, COLORADO on 2026-06-15. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 7 days (2026-09-12), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.+2 more active determinations on file

Green-card follow-through: 98%

Of 58 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 1 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 497 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

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49 transfer filings in the last year, covering 49 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • Be a flexible teammate as part of a fast-paced product development team
  • You can expect a high-profile position on a great team with many challenges and rewards
  • We use modern technologies, clean code, and automated testing to ensure long-term success.

Responsibilities

  • Support other engineers on the team
  • Suggest enhancements for the product and build pipelines.
  • You'll collaborate with Product Managers, UX, design, and research to solve real user challenges.
  • Design and lead meaningful features with a strong focus on non-functional requirements. (scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, usability and quality etc).
  • Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

Requirements

  • 1+ years experience in front-end development
  • 1+ years experience in supporting services in PROD environments.
  • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Demonstrable track record in technical leadership - people, product & process.
  • Proven troubleshooting and triaging skills to resolve escalated production and customer issues.
  • 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).
  • Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree.
  • Proficient in producing high quality technical documentation.
  • Experience developing distributed and concurrent systems; secure, fault tolerant, highly available, recoverable, consistent, scalable, and predictable and the tradeoffs therein
  • Strong focus on performance, scalability, and security of services.
  • Experienced in collaborating with diverse teams in a fast-paced, Scrum-based environment.
  • Skilled in turning ambiguous problems into clear solutions.
  • Able to balance priorities and communicate cross-functionally.
  • Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

  • 1+ years experience in deployments technologies. (Terraform, yaml are preferred)
  • Knowledge of Workday XpressO and Internal Code Lifecycle Development in Workday is a plus.
  • Familiarity with multiple programming languages and paradigms is a plus.

Skills

  • Your work days are brighter here.

Compensation

  • $130,400 USD - $195,600 USD
  • $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD
  • In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.

Benefits

  • Our Approach to Flexible Work
  • 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.

Company info

  • We are a distributed team that builds cloud-scale services that power the Workday users search experience for millions of users every day across the world.
  • Our mission is to build a scalable search experience platform to enhance findability and discoverability that powers seamless experiences across multiple surfaces, including web, mobile, and slack.
  • If you're passionate about enhancing user experiences, thrive in a full-stack environment, and take pride in high-quality code, join our dedicated, high-performing team-Apply Now! 🚀
  • Support services and customers in the production environment in specific environments from frontend to backend.

Equal opportunity

  • Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email accommodations@workday.com, as far in advance as possible.
  • Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.
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