Sr Workday Applications Engineer

About the role

Zillow's People Technology organization builds and operates the platforms that power how Zillow employees work, including Workday, ServiceNow, and an agentic AI layer connecting these systems to surfaces like Slack, Google Workspace, and Zoom. The India engineering team owns this platform stack end to end. As a Sr Workday Applications Engineer based in Bengaluru, you will serve as a technical lead for complex integration and application work across Workday and the broader enterprise ecosystem, design architectures, deliver critical code and integrations, shepherd quality, resolve critical operational incidents, and mentor engineers. This is an Office position requiring regular work at the Zillow India office approximately 80 to 100 percent of the time each month, with employees expected to live within a reasonable commuting distance.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the technical lead for complex integration and application work across Workday, Gem, BrightHire, ServiceNow, AD/Okta, payroll and benefits vendors, and internal platforms; define the reusable
• Build complex integrations, services & applications using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs, and architect Extend applications (custom objects, validations, orchestratio
• Act as an expert in multiple subdomains owned by your team; influence and shape team architecture, working closely with Principal and other senior Engineers, and treat testability, resiliency, and obs
• Design and own MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and connectors that expose Workday capabilities to AI agents and internal tooling; treat the AI-enablement layer as first-class platform work
• Establish how the team uses and adopts AI-assisted IDEs and coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot); raise delivery speed and code quality across the team/org, not just your own output
• Set the standard for observability across the integration estate (dashboards, metrics, alerts, and runbooks); resolve complex, high-severity production issues at the root cause and drive measurable im
• Act as a focal point for projects: coordinating deliverables, writing designs, ensuring accurate estimates, and reviewing artifacts
• Mentor engineers, improving their craft and integrating them into team culture and process

What you’ll bring

• 5-8+ years of software or application engineering experience, with significant time spent on platform or enterprise systems
• 4+ years of hands-on Workday development across integrations (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors), Extend, Orchestration, and RaaS/WQL
• 3+ years writing production code in JavaScript, Java, Python, or Go, with strong SQL or equivalent querying experience
• Highly skilled in building with REST/SOAP and GraphQL, and in data transformation patterns (XML, XSLT, JSON)
• Demonstrated ownership of integration architecture, including event-driven patterns, API gateway patterns, and fault-tolerant design
• Deep understanding of the Workday data model and security fundamentals (domains, segments, business processes)
• Uses AI-assisted development as a standard part of the daily workflow and sets the bar for the team
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized university in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a related field (B.E./B.Tech/MCA), or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Benefits

• Competitive base pay
• Incentive compensation subject to applicable laws and relevant Zillow policies

Education

Bachelor's degree from a recognized university in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a related field (B.E./B.Tech/MCA), or equivalent practical experience