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Sr. Principal Architect - Observability
Workday INC · 🇺🇸 USA, CA, Pleasanton
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
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The US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Data Platform and Observability Engineering team empowers our customers and workmates with resilient, secure, massively scalable distributed systems, real-time observability, and operational analytics — enabling product innovation, faster problem resolution, seamless operations and data driven decisions. Our focus is on the development of large scale distributed data systems to support critical Workday products and provide real-time insights across Workday’s platforms, infrastructure and applications. The team provides platforms that process Petabytes of data that enable core Workday products and use cases like core HCM, Fins, AI/ML skus, internal data products and Observability. If you enjoy writing efficient software or tuning and scaling large distributed systems you will enjoy working with us. Do you want to tackle exciting challenges at massive scale across private and public clouds for our 10000+ global customers? Do you want to work with world class engineers and facilitate the development of the next generation Distributed systems platforms? If so, we should chat. About the Role This is a hands-on role, where you will be responsible for the architecture, standards, best practices for all things Observability at Workday. You will spend your time by working closely with the Observability Platform engineers, product managers, stakeholders, evolving the platform architecture, contributing to the Observability platform and acting as an evangelist for the platform. Here are some of the things you will be doing: • This is a hands-on role, where you will provide architectural leadership for Workday’s Observability Platform and Services. You will be the domain expert across all the pillars of Observability. • Drive Agentic experiences for incident detection, triage, and recovery - by owning & driving the Observability MCP and Observability Agents. • Ensure a seamless Observability experience across data domains (logs, metrics, traces, alerts) and different infrastructure types (Virtualized, Kubernetes, Bare metal, etc.) • Drive standardization of the Observability tooling, develop and publish standards, leverage open source specifications (OpenTelemetry etc) • Closely collaborate with the Infrastructure, Technology Operations & Product teams. • Promote & Evangelize Observability to all Workday engineering teams. Establish standard processes, frameworks, and help onboard engineering teams. About You Basic Qualifications • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field • Must have at least 10+ years of software engineering/architect background and a pro