About the TeamAdmin Central is building the future of how administrators work across Workday, turning a fragmented patchwork of tools and disconnected AI into a single, unified experience. Within Admin Central, Workday implementations move from being driven by human effort to being powered by intelligence designed into the platform. You'll build mission-critical distributed systems, high-availability usage pipelines, new agentic functionality, and event-driven data flows across global product regions to ensure enterprise billing integrity at scale. If you're excited to build from scratch, move fast, and transform how thousands of admins work every day, come join us!
About the RoleAs a Software Development Engineer on the Admin Central team, you will design, build, and maintain high-performance microservices and data pipelines that power Workday's next-generation Agentic Workflow and Analytics Platform. Admin Central sits at the core of Workday's enterprise AI and automation strategy, serving over 700 customer accounts to handle ad hoc and ambient agentic requests through high-throughput analytics and agentic workflows.
In this hands-on role, you will design multi agent architectures to provide enterprise grade agentic capabilities, extend existing agentic workflows (integrating tools like LangSmith and LangChain) to provide deep visibility into agent execution, tool calls, and prompt/response chains across global multi-tenant environments, building out the governed deployment fabric where configuration, data migration, and validation are largely handled by agents, with key human in the loop interactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Feature Development: Design, code, and deploy production-ready microservices and streaming pipelines for BPO's core analytics and agentic engines.
- API & Data Engineering: Build scalable REST and gRPC APIs to enable seamless integrations with MCP tools, LLM workflows, and observability frameworks.
- Quality & Automation: Write robust unit, integration, and distributed load tests, ensuring end-to-end reliability across CI/CD automation pipelines.
- Operational Monitoring: Monitor, triage, and resolve production issues to maintain high platform availability and low latency across global customer tenants.
- Technical Documentation: Author clean API specifications, component designs, and operational runbooks to support team scalability.
About YouBasic Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production applications.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in at least two of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Go, or Scala.
Other Qualifications
- Practical experience working with distributed systems, microservice architectures, or event-driven pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Spark, or relational/columnar databases like ClickHouse or PostgreSQL).
- Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, or microservice communication protocols.
- Analytics: Familiarity with high-throughput data processing engines (Apache Kafka, Spark) and cloud storage architectures (AWS S3/Iceberg).
- AI & Agentic Frameworks: Exposure to LLM application frameworks (LangChain, LangSmith) or OpenTelemetry (OTLP) tracing models.
- Cloud & Containers: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD automation tools (Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Testing Rigor: Strong commitment to test-driven development, integration testing, and telemetry-based monitoring.
- Collaboration & Mindset: Strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, and an eager, adaptable approach to solving complex engineering challenges.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Workday Pay Transparency StatementThe 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 WorkWith 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.
