Principal Software Development Engineer - Developer Platform

Workday, Inc.
📍 Pleasanton, California, United States 💼 Full Time 🕒 Posted June 19, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

As a Principal Software Development Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will serve as a force multiplier for the organization—setting the technical vision for an open developer ecosystem and acting as a trusted advisor to engineering and product leadership on platform strategy, architecture, and long-term investment. You will define and drive the roadmap, lead API and SDK design at scale, and influence decisions that extend well beyond a single team or product line.

You will bring outsized organizational impact by raising the technical bar across a distributed engineering organization, establishing the standards that govern how Workday builds for external developers, and representing the platform to the broader developer community.

A key focus area for this role is leading the evolution of the Developer Portal front-end platform—from a monolithic UI into a set of decoupled, independently deployable applications with clear patterns for routi...

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Job Details

  • Location Pleasanton, California
  • Job Type Full Time
  • Category Computer Occupations
  • Posted Date June 19, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 29, 2026