# Senior Software Engineer

Hiring organization: [Workday](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/workday)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/fca1e729-768f-496a-b038-d8e84d58dc94

Listed on Workday's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Pleasanton, CA
- Salary: 160100 – 285100 USD per year

## Summary

This role focuses on designing and optimizing high-performance distributed systems that power Workday's core platform, handling mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale. It suits experienced engineers who excel at both architectural design and hands-on optimization, comfortable diving deep into profiling and performance tuning across the full stack from code to cloud infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Workday's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache JMeter, C++, Datadog, Go, Grafana K6, Java, Memcached, Microservices, New Relic, NoSQL, OpenTelemetry, Python, Redis, SQL

## Required

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years professional software development writing production-grade code in Python, Go, Java, or C++
- 4+ years designing and building scalable distributed microservices architectures
- Proven track record diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues including memory leaks and CPU bottlenecks
- Hands-on experience with profiling, tracing, and APM tools
- Strong expertise in database optimization, SQL/NoSQL queries, indexing, and multi-tier caching

## Nice to have

- Understanding of how application code interacts with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
- Experience establishing micro-benchmarking, load testing, and stress testing practices in CI/CD pipelines
- Deep understanding of asynchronous programming, multi-threading, memory management, and distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability to drive design reviews and mentor mid-level engineers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills collaborating with platform and product teams

Apply on Workday's site: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Senior-Software-Engineer_JR-0107919