Software Development Engineer

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

The Performance, Resilience and Scalability Engineering team is looking for the best candidates to help drive performance analysis, optimization and scalability of Workday's leading enterprise cloud HCM, and Analytics. The position within the Performance, Resiliency and Scalability group, is ideally suited to candidates from a performance engineering or development background with a deep focus on performance and resiliency engineering. The team has a broad charter that spans from debugging and recreating specific customer issues, to using the latest Big Data techniques in order to extract actionable data and model future capacity and scalability needs.

About the Role

Workday is looking for an outstanding Performance Engineer to join our Tools Performance Engineering team.

Performance Engineers are highly skilled engineers who debug, measure, analyze, and improve our Workday software. They are generalists with deep technical understanding of software, hardware, networking, distributed systems, cloud computing and technologies and the Internet.  They enjoy taking a holistic view of sophisticated systems.  Application Performance is achieved by working closely with all our engineering teams throughout the release cycle. Our ultimate goal is application performance that yields an excellent end user experience and scales to meet Software as a Service Infrastructure needs.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ Years of experience in software engineering

• Ability to distill volumes of data, analyze performance results, and diagnose performance problems.

• Ability to clearly characterize system performance to team members.

• Performance test planning, setup, and execution

• Test scripting and test data management

• Application and architecture code profiling

• Infrastructure and application performance tuning

• Collaborative teammate

• Bachelors Degree (or higher). (Computer Science or Software Engineering preferable)

Other Qualifications:

• Unix or Linux experience

• OO design and Java development experience.

• SQL and mySQL skills or equivalent experience

• Experience with Performance, Load, Stress, and Scalability Testing

• Web Application Development, Application Servers Tomcat, Web Services development experience (SOAP or REST)

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

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. 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: $140,000 USD - $210,000 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $117,800 USD - $210,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With 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.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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