Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Workday•Pleasanton, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Developer Relations Engineering (DRE) team is a driving force behind a productive, well-enabled developer ecosystem at Workday. Working within the Outbound Developer Platform organization, DRE brings specialized, hands-on technical expertise rooted in building and developing on the platform itself. This includes creating samples, frameworks, and demos, and translating complex capabilities into practical guidance that developers and internal teams depend on. The DRE team is at the forefront of a significant shift in Workday's history, as the developer ecosystem evolves from building traditional apps and integrations to building agents, agentic apps, and integrations designed for the agentic landscape. DRE is leading the way in helping developers embrace new AI tooling like Developer Agent and Agent Ready Tools, bring these capabilities together to build solutions faster, and champion responsible AI usage. DRE serves as a critical part of the feedback loop with Workday's product and engineering teams through programs like Early Adopter engagements and enables front-line resources, most notably the Forward Deployed Engineers, to lead the field in the AI shift with Workday's most strategic customers. Workday is opening the developer experience more than ever, and DRE plays a central role in making the platform an enticing place for developers to grow their careers and deepen their skills. The team's deeply hands-on culture, with members coming from implementer or developer backgrounds, ensures they not only understand product capabilities but know how to build with them. The team embraces challenges, takes pride in their work, and has a genuine sense of unity, reprioritizing to help one another succeed.

Requirements

7+ 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.
Skilled communicator, with the ability to exchange complex technical information clearly across a range of audiences from developers and engineers to product leaders and customer-facing teams.
Experienced in working across multiple groups, with a demonstrated ability to understand the needs and expectations of diverse partners, including product, engineering, sales, services, and customer teams, and to contribute to communication approaches that build alignment and support cross-organizational programs.
Thoughtful and forward-looking, with the ability to apply insights about the developer ecosystem and platform landscape to identify opportunities, anticipate challenges, and contribute to plans that align with Workday's long-term goals.
Creative, resourceful, and willing to explore beyond familiar tools and processes, with the ability to develop and implement new ideas, approaches, and solutions that create value for the developer community.
Deeply empathetic toward the developer experience, with a natural ability to understand the perspective, needs, and challenges of developers and customers.
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, with the ability to create compelling technical content including samples, demos, guided activities, and documentation.

Responsibilities

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 so they can position and solution the platform appropriately with Workday's customers.
Supporting the execution of Early Adopter programs for emerging product features, including coordinating with Developer Platform, AI Platform, and Product Development Engineering to ensure EA programs run effectively, products are tested in real-world customer environments, and feedback is curated for product teams prior to general availability.
Helping ensure that EA participants receive the enablement and support necessary to use and test EA products, contributing to positive outcomes that include successful testing, actionable product feedback, and customer success stories for marketing use at GA launch.
Helping the developer community understand how to bring together agents, agentic apps, integrations, and AI tooling to build solutions faster — supporting the shift from a closed-wall approach to an open, flexible development model while championing responsible AI usage.
Building and curating high-quality technical samples, frameworks, and demos that showcase Workday's platform capabilities — including agents, agentic apps, and AI-powered tooling such as Developer Agent, Workday MCP, and Agent Ready Tools.
Maintaining these assets over time, keeping them current with the latest best practices and technical capabilities.
Creating guided activities and hands-on technical content for Express Labs, Very Live Demos, and conference sessions at DevCon and Rising, as well as supporting Hackathon events with relevant technical samples.
Presenting on Developer Deep Dive calls, contributing to Developer Forums, and supporting enablement sessions for sales, services, Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), and other customer-facing teams.