Principal Developer Relations Engineer
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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.
About the Team
The Developer Relations Engineering (DRE) team is one of the driving forces behind a productive, well-enabled developer ecosystem at Workday. Working within the Outbound Developer Platform organization, DRE brings a specialized, hands-on technical expertise rooted in building and developing on the platform itself - creating samples, frameworks, and demos, and translating complex capabilities into practical guidance.
The DRE team sits at the forefront of one of the most significant shifts in Workday's history. As the developer ecosystem evolves from building traditional apps to building agents and agentic apps, DRE is leading the way in helping developers embrace new AI tooling, bring these capabilities together to build solutions faster, and champion responsible AI usage.
About the Role
As a Principal Developer Relations Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader on the DRE team, serving as a bridge between the developer platform and the diverse communities that build on it. You will play a critical role in ensuring that developers, partners, and internal teams have the technical knowledge, resources, and enablement they need to succeed on the Workday platform, especially as the ecosystem shifts toward agentic solutions and AI-driven development workflows.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Enabling Forward Deployed Engineers and other front-line roles on both existing and emerging Developer Platform capabilities, with a particular focus on the newest AI features.
- Running and supporting Early Adopter programs for emerging product features.
- Ensuring that EA participants receive the enablement and support necessary to use and test EA products.
- Helping the developer community understand how to bring together agents, agentic apps, integrations, and AI tooling to build solutions faster.
- Building and curating high-quality technical samples, frameworks, and demos that showcase Workday's platform capabilities.
- Creating guided activities and hands-on technical content for Express Labs, Very Live Demos, and conference sessions.
- Presenting on Developer Deep Dive calls, contributing to Developer Forums, and leading enablement sessions.
About You
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of related work experience in developer relations, developer enablement, technical consulting, platform engineering, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience applying AI-powered tools within developer workflows to accelerate development and improve outcomes.
Other Qualifications:
- Skilled communicator, with the ability to exchange complex technical information clearly across a range of audiences.
- Experienced in managing relationships across multiple groups, with a demonstrated ability to identify the needs and expectations of diverse partners.
- Forward-looking and analytical, with the ability to generate and apply unique insights about the developer ecosystem.
- Creative, resourceful, and willing to explore beyond familiar tools and processes.
- Deeply empathetic toward the developer experience.
- Highly organized and adaptable, with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and responsibilities at the same time.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.
- Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
- Primary Location Base Pay Range: $178,200 USD - $267,400 USD
- Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $150,500 USD - $267,400 USD
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. We spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners.
Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.