Adaptive Insights

Adaptive Insights

Senior Software Development Engineer - Developer Platform

USA, CO, Boulder · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactCode ReviewAWSGCPAzureKubernetesHelmAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTOAuthHRISCommunicationMentoringWriting

About the role

  • Our mission is to make the platform reliable, extensible, and straightforward for developers to adopt and extend.
  • We work closely with principal engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to turn platform growth goals into well-scoped, high-quality engineering work.
  • We care deeply about technical craft, give direct and constructive feedback, and celebrate shipping capabilities that developers actually want to use.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to and execute on the technical strategy for the Workday Developer Portal and adjacent services, implementing platform capabilities that enable external developers and partners to build across Workday products.
  • Lead design and implementation of key platform components-including APIs, SDKs, and agentic service integrations-with a strong emphasis on scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
  • Collaborate closely with principal engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate platform growth goals into well-scoped, executable engineering work.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing, and help raise the technical bar on the team.
  • Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to build-vs-integrate decisions for platform components, with grounding in real-world tradeoffs of scale and maintainability.
  • Support developer-facing documentation, onboarding flows, and tooling improvements that make the platform easier to adopt and extend.
  • As a Senior Development Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will design and build core platform capabilities that advance Workday toward a more extensible, developer-friendly ecosystem.
  • You will deliver high-impact technical work, contribute to architecture and API/SDK design, and collaborate across product and engineering teams to ship reliable, scalable services consumed by internal and external developers.
  • Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including senior‑level ownership of web or platform services in production.
  • Experience working with modern web technologies and APIs (for example, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and REST/GraphQL) in a production environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Hands-on expertise with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes, including the ability to deploy, operate, and troubleshoot production services on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • The following are advantageous but not required:
  • 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).

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with enterprise HCM, talent, or workforce management domains.
  • Experience working with developer portals, API catalogs, or self-serve onboarding tooling.
  • Background in multi-product or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
  • Interest in developer relations or technical writing, including contributing to docs, guides, or developer-facing content.
  • Cloud certifications (GKE, AWS Solutions Architect, etc.).
  • Hands-on experience with cloud development technologies and platforms (AWS, Kubernetes, Helm) is a plus.

Skills

  • Your work days are brighter here.

Compensation

  • $168,500 USD - $252,700 USD
  • $160,100 USD - $285,100 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

  • The Developer Platform team is building the foundation for Workday's open developer ecosystem.
  • We design and deliver the platform capabilities, APIs, SDKs, and developer-facing services that enable external developers and partners to build on Workday products-including Peakon, HiredScore, VNDLY, and more.
  • If you are energized by hands-on platform implementation, contributing to architecture decisions, and helping other engineers grow, you will find a collaborative team that values thoughtful execution and makes the work enjoyable along the way.

Equal opportunity

  • Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.
  • If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email accommodations@workday.com.
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