P4 Senior Development Engineer

Workday · Pleasanton, CA · $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD · hybrid We are seeking a P4 Senior Development Engineer to help design, build, optimize, and operate core platform services that power Workday at scale. Responsibilities: Improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and release automation to enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery. Help design, build, and operate highly available platform capabilities across AWS, GCP, and Workday data centers. Lead the technical design of core features and microservices, ensuring they are decoupled, horizontally scalable, and optimized for low latency and high throughput. Write clean, production-ready code for critical paths and refactor legacy components for maximum efficiency. Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks using APM tools. Optimize the data layer, including designing caching strategies, optimizing database schemas and queries, and selecting efficient serialization formats. Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure software design aligns with AWS architecture and hybrid-cloud environments. Drive rigorous code reviews focused on architectural alignment, concurrency hazards, algorithmic efficiency, and production readiness. Establish benchmarking and load testing workflows within CI/CD pipelines to catch performance regressions early. Requirements: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of professional software development experience writing clean, high-concurrency, and production-grade code utilizing Python, GoLang, or Java/C++. Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or production operations. 4+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving scalable, distributed microservices architectures. Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues. Hands-on experience with profiling, tracing, and APM tools. Nice to Have: Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or ELK. Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as Jenkins, Helm, Argo CD, Argo Workflows, or Kustomize. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams. Experience supporting Java-based applications and build tools such as Maven or Gradle. Pay Information: 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. Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD