Full Stack Engineer

Workday was founded on a vision to revolutionize enterprise software, built on a culture that puts people first. Our success is driven by a collaborative, employee-centric environment, where Workmates thrive and contribute to a greater purpose. We prioritize our people, communities, and the planet while maintaining profitability. Here, you're encouraged to be yourself, embrace your energy and passion, and help shape the future.

Join us in creating a brighter Workday for all!

We are a distributed team that builds cloud-scale services that power the Workday home page and search experience for tens of millions of users across the world. We're on a mission to deliver a smart, personalized experience that helps people work more efficiently. We work across the full stack, from frontend to backend, and partner closely with infrastructure teams to keep our services healthy and performant for customers around the world.

We use modern technologies, clean code, and automated testing to ensure long-term success. If you're passionate about enhancing user experiences, thrive in a full-stack environment, and take pride in high-quality, reliable code, join our dedicated, high-performing team—

We're seeking driven problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment, delivering customer value quickly and making an impact. Ideal candidates will be exceptionally strong individual contributors, self-starters who tackle complex problems, create innovative solutions, and mentor others. You'll collaborate with Product Managers, UX, design, and research to solve real user challenges for Workday's highest-security US Federal customers.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in IxP, you will:

• Write and maintain robust, efficient, and testable code using top-tier languages, frameworks, and tools—for example, Type Script, Kotlin, Python, Rust, Spring, Webflux, Node.js, Express, React, and Cypress. This list is illustrative of the current stack, not a checklist every candidate must fully match.
• Support services and customers in specific high-security airgapped environments from frontend to backend.
• Design and lead meaningful features with a strong focus on non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, usability and quality, etc.).
• Own the day-to-day operations of services you build, including on-call support, in close partnership with infrastructure and service teams.
• Balance feature delivery speed with system reliability, using well-defined service-level objectives (SLOs) to guide tradeoffs and prioritize work.
• Be a flexible teammate as part of a fast-paced product development team.
• Provide technical influence within the team, with ability to lead technical & functional discussions.
• Suggest enhancements for the product and build pipelines.
• Operate as a self-starter who can effectively manage numerous projects simultaneously, meet aggressive deadlines, and thrive in a multifaceted environment. You can expect a high-profile position on a great team with many challenges and rewards.

This role may require a security clearance at the TS/SCI w/CI Poly level. Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance. An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.

• US Citizenship is required
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and deploying secure, high-throughput enterprise systems with multi-functional teams.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead / Lead Engineer) leading complex initiatives end-to-end (delivering 3+ multi-quarter…