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[/company/workday-inc](/company/workday-inc)[Workday, Inc.](/company/workday-inc)
# Sr. Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Workday, Inc.

Compensation · Listed in posting

$190,100 – $285,100/yr

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Santa Clara, California · Longmont, Colorado · +1

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 24, 2026

## Description

Workday is hiring a Senior or Mid-Level Software Engineer for its Data Platform and Observability team. The role designs and operates observability services for monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing; builds data capture, ingestion, processing, and automation systems; instruments AI-powered workflows; and supports production infrastructure and on-call operations. The position is hybrid, with at least 50% of time spent in the office or in the field, and is based in Santa Clara, California, with additional United States locations. The primary base salary range is $190,100 to $285,100 USD, with an application deadline of 11/30/2026.

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