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Sr Software Development Engineer - Core Platform Integration

Pleasanton, CA
Full-Time

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Core Platform Integration Team is a new centralized team within Workday’s Core Services organization that sits at the intersection of Workday's IPE (Infrastructure Platform Engineering) organization and our acquired companies. Workday has acquired several companies in the last couple of years that run multiple services across cloud service providers AWS and GCP with their own infrastructure patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and operational practices.

Our charter is to bring these companies onto CP2, Workday's cloud-agnostic \"paved road\" platform, so that 100% of services can run on any CSP. That means migrating workloads off CSP lock-in services (managed databases, proprietary queues, vendor-specific identity, etc.) and onto standardized CP2 building blocks for compute, networking, observability, CI/CD, and security.

This is a small, high-leverage team working directly with acquisition engineering leads, IPE platform owners, and Workday SREs. We operate in the open, driving architecture review boards, building migration scorecards, sizing onboarding effort, and producing the roadmap that shapes both what the IPE platform must build and what acquired teams must refactor. The work is technical, cross-organizational, and high-impact.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll be one of the hands-on technical engineers working closely with acquired company engineering teams to plan, implement, and execute their migration to CP2. You'll own the technical delta analysis for assigned acquisitions, design the migration approach, and write the code, IaC, and automation that gets services moved.

  • You will partner with engineering leads at 2–3 assigned acquired companies to inventory their services, dependencies, and CSP-specific footprint (managed DBs, IAM, networking, queues, secrets, observability stack, etc.).

  • You will produce a per-service migration plan: what stays, what gets refactored onto CP2 paved-road components, and a T-shirt-sized effort estimate (S/M/L).

  • If and as needed, you will rewrite Terraform/Terragrunt modules to target CP2, port CI/CD pipelines, swap CSP-locked services for CP2 equivalents, and re-instrument observability (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs) to Workday standards.

  • We will rely on you to identify gaps in the CP2 paved road and feed concrete, well-scoped feature requests back to IPE platform teams — with enough technical specificity that they can be prioritized and built.

  • You will help establish repeatable migration patterns (a "playbook") so future acquisition onboarding is faster than the first.

  • You will be an active participant in Architecture Review Boards, separating hard blockers (re-architecture required) from soft blockers (tool swaps), and help drive consensus across IPE and acquisition teams.

  • This role involves collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones. You will need to be adept at communicating effectively and building strong relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.

About You

You're a senior engineer who has done cloud migration work before, not just designed it on a whiteboard. You've moved real services between clouds or onto an internal platform, hit the messy parts (stateful data, IAM rewiring, DNS, secrets, certificate pinning, undocumented dependencies), and shipped the migration to completion.

Basic Qualification

  • 7+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating production workloads on AWS and/or GCP.

  • Proficiency in using the latest AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Augment) as a force multiplier to accelerate code understanding, migration work, and documentation.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualification

  • Strong, current Kubernetes experience (EKS, GKE, or equivalent). You can debug a misbehaving pod, write a sane Helm chart and reason about networking and resource limits.

  • Production proficiency in Terraform (Terragrunt a plus) as your primary IaC tool, and experience refactoring IaC across accounts/projects/regions.

  • Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python for automation, migration tooling, and operators, not just glue scripts.

  • Solid CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, or Harness) and comfort redesigning pipelines, not just maintaining them.

  • Working knowledge of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Operations Suite, or equivalents) and what good SLI/SLO instrumentation looks like.

  • Practical experience with at least one managed cloud database (Aurora, Cloud SQL, Spanner, RDS) including migration or replication.

  • Strong collaborator. You know how to earn trust with a team whose code you're about to change.

  • You write clearly. Migration plans, RFCs, and runbooks are part of the job.

  • You're pragmatic about "paved road" tradeoffs — you can hold the line on standards without being dogmatic when an acquisition has a legitimate reason to deviate.

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity. The first few acquisitions will not have a clean playbook; you'll help write it.

Additional Preferred Skills:

  • Multi-Cloud experience with GCP and AWS.

  • Familiarity with secrets management, IAM least-privilege design, and basic security hygiene (vulnerability scanning, image signing, mTLS).

  • Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.


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: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 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.


At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email [email protected].

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

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.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
We request Priority Protected Veteran & Disabled Referrals for all of our locations within the state.

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Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Core Platform Integration Team is a new centralized team within Workday’s Core Services organization that sits at the intersection of Workday's IPE (Infrastructure Platform Engineering) organization and our acquired companies. Workday has acquired several companies in the last couple of years that run multiple services across cloud service providers AWS and GCP with their own infrastructure patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and operational practices.

Our charter is to bring these companies onto CP2, Workday's cloud-agnostic \"paved road\" platform, so that 100% of services can run on any CSP. That means migrating workloads off CSP lock-in services (managed databases, proprietary queues, vendor-specific identity, etc.) and onto standardized CP2 building blocks for compute, networking, observability, CI/CD, and security.

This is a small, high-leverage team working directly with acquisition engineering leads, IPE platform owners, and Workday SREs. We operate in the open, driving architecture review boards, building migration scorecards, sizing onboarding effort, and producing the roadmap that shapes both what the IPE platform must build and what acquired teams must refactor. The work is technical, cross-organizational, and high-impact.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll be one of the hands-on technical engineers working closely with acquired company engineering teams to plan, implement, and execute their migration to CP2. You'll own the technical delta analysis for assigned acquisitions, design the migration approach, and write the code, IaC, and automation that gets services moved.

  • You will partner with engineering leads at 2–3 assigned acquired companies to inventory their services, dependencies, and CSP-specific footprint (managed DBs, IAM, networking, queues, secrets, observability stack, etc.).

  • You will produce a per-service migration plan: what stays, what gets refactored onto CP2 paved-road components, and a T-shirt-sized effort estimate (S/M/L).

  • If and as needed, you will rewrite Terraform/Terragrunt modules to target CP2, port CI/CD pipelines, swap CSP-locked services for CP2 equivalents, and re-instrument observability (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs) to Workday standards.

  • We will rely on you to identify gaps in the CP2 paved road and feed concrete, well-scoped feature requests back to IPE platform teams — with enough technical specificity that they can be prioritized and built.

  • You will help establish repeatable migration patterns (a "playbook") so future acquisition onboarding is faster than the first.

  • You will be an active participant in Architecture Review Boards, separating hard blockers (re-architecture required) from soft blockers (tool swaps), and help drive consensus across IPE and acquisition teams.

  • This role involves collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones. You will need to be adept at communicating effectively and building strong relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.

About You

You're a senior engineer who has done cloud migration work before, not just designed it on a whiteboard. You've moved real services between clouds or onto an internal platform, hit the messy parts (stateful data, IAM rewiring, DNS, secrets, certificate pinning, undocumented dependencies), and shipped the migration to completion.

Basic Qualification

  • 7+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating production workloads on AWS and/or GCP.

  • Proficiency in using the latest AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Augment) as a force multiplier to accelerate code understanding, migration work, and documentation.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualification

  • Strong, current Kubernetes experience (EKS, GKE, or equivalent). You can debug a misbehaving pod, write a sane Helm chart and reason about networking and resource limits.

  • Production proficiency in Terraform (Terragrunt a plus) as your primary IaC tool, and experience refactoring IaC across accounts/projects/regions.

  • Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python for automation, migration tooling, and operators, not just glue scripts.

  • Solid CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, or Harness) and comfort redesigning pipelines, not just maintaining them.

  • Working knowledge of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Operations Suite, or equivalents) and what good SLI/SLO instrumentation looks like.

  • Practical experience with at least one managed cloud database (Aurora, Cloud SQL, Spanner, RDS) including migration or replication.

  • Strong collaborator. You know how to earn trust with a team whose code you're about to change.

  • You write clearly. Migration plans, RFCs, and runbooks are part of the job.

  • You're pragmatic about "paved road" tradeoffs — you can hold the line on standards without being dogmatic when an acquisition has a legitimate reason to deviate.

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity. The first few acquisitions will not have a clean playbook; you'll help write it.

Additional Preferred Skills:

  • Multi-Cloud experience with GCP and AWS.

  • Familiarity with secrets management, IAM least-privilege design, and basic security hygiene (vulnerability scanning, image signing, mTLS).

  • Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.


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: $176,000 USD - $264,000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 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.


At Workday, we are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email [email protected].

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers.

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

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.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
We request Priority Protected Veteran & Disabled Referrals for all of our locations within the state.

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About Workday


“We believe a supportive and inclusive workplace, where everyone feels valued and included, is the key to great products, happy customers, and an enduring.”
Carin Taylor
Workday Chief Diversity Officer

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance, HR, and planning. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Value inclusion, belonging, and equity.™

Our approach to diversity is simple: it’s about embracing everyone. From cultivating a culture where all employees can bring their best selves to work to deploying diversity initiatives that support all, we’re doing what it takes to build a more equitable workplace and world.

Diversity isn’t just a business imperative. It’s core to everything we do.

Our commitment to building a more equitable world shines through in our everyday practices. We hire and develop a diverse workforce, cultivate our employee-first culture, shape corporate policies, and invest in underrepresented communities around the world. And we’re just getting started.


How we’re creating a workplace for all:

  • We’ve signed the White House Equal Pay Pledge.
  • We’ve put our name on the Business Statement for Transgender Equality.
  • We signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge.

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