Staff Workday Integration Engineer
Airbnb•3h ago
United StatesRemoteFull-timeStaff Level7+ yrs exp
H-1B sponsor
Top focus
Staff Engineer
- Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home
- has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
- The Community You Will Join:
- The Talent Systems team within BizTech is the trusted technology partner to Employee Experience, Recruiting, Payroll, Procurement, Legal
- Privacy teams across Airbnb's global operations. Driven by the philosophy of "High Tech, Human Touch," we design and implement technology that meets both business objectives and employee needs, building robust frameworks that support the full employee journey, delivering AI-enabled self-service tools
- playing a key role in payroll management and benefits enrollment.
- We own and operate a portfolio of 300+ production integrations spanning payroll processors, benefits carriers, identity providers, compliance vendors
- internal platforms, with Workday at the center. You'll partner closely with HR Centers of Excellence, IT Security, Finance
- external vendors to deliver enterprise-grade integration solutions that power Airbnb's global HR technology ecosystem.
- The Difference You Will Make:
- As a Staff Workday Integration Engineer, you are the technical authority for the integration initiatives that BizTech and Airbnb depend on. You will help define our integration strategy and technical roadmap, setting architectural standards that enable seamless HR data flows across our global employee population.
- This is a hands-on builder role. You will personally write integration logic, own production reliability
- make the architectural decisions other engineers build against. You will drive touchless automation, reduce manual intervention
- ensure compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Your work directly impacts how thousands of Airbnb employees experience their payroll, benefits, time tracking
- As a Staff-level engineer, you will think 12+ months ahead, proactively surface systemic gaps
- establish patterns adopted across the Talent Systems team. The team is also actively investing in agentic systems and AI-enabled internal tooling that reshape how employees interact with HR processes
- you will gain hands-on exposure to that work.
- A Typical Day:
- Integration Architecture & Technical Strategy
- Define and own Airbnb's Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks
- Lead architectural decisions for complex, high-risk integration initiatives, including global rollouts, payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, and system migrations
- Evaluate and advise on build-vs-buy decisions, Workday-native-vs-middleware trade-offs, and long-term integration platform strategy
- Establish reusable integration design patterns, error handling frameworks, and observability standards adopted team-wide
- Anticipate platform evolution and architect integrations that accommodate Workday's semi-annual releases with minimal rework
- Core Workday Integration Development
- Architect, design, build, and maintain complex inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS API endpoints
- Develop integrations against Workday Web Services (WWS): WSDL interpretation, web service versioning, request/response handling for SOAP and REST
- Own design and delivery of high-volume integration scenarios: payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, global workforce changes, and multi-country rollouts
- Build and maintain advanced Custom Reports and Calculated Fields for integration consumption
- Work deeply within the Business Process Framework, understanding how process events trigger integration flows
- Maintain expert knowledge of Workday payroll interfaces (PECI, PICOF) and their interaction with third-party payroll providers
- Manage integration portfolio across Workday's semi-annual release cycle: assess release notes, lead sandbox testing, deploy to production with rigorous change controls
- Workday Extend & Orchestrate
- Define and own Airbnb's adoption strategy for Workday Extend, including when Extend is the right tool versus Studio, EIB, or middleware
- Architect and build custom Workday Extend applications (data models, business logic, UI pages, orchestration flows) for HR processes not supported natively
- Design and expose Extend REST APIs for internal consumers and external vendor integrations; govern API versioning, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and rate limit strategies
- Lead adoption of Workday Orchestrate for multi-system workflow coordination across Workday and external systems
- Own the Extend and Orchestrate application lifecycle: requirements, design, development, sandbox testing, production deployment, and ongoing maintenance
- Production Reliability, Operations & Platform Governance
- Drive operational excellence across the integration portfolio: SLAs, prioritization, and escalation handling
- Own SLAs for the most critical integrations; establish monitoring, alerting, retry logic, idempotency, and runbook standards that raise the bar across the team
- Drive root cause analysis on integration failures and implement preventative controls
- Implement PII handling, audit controls, and data reconciliation strategies meeting GDPR, India PDPB, and SOC 2 requirements
- Enforce data security protocols: PGP, SSH, SFTP, HTTPS, OAuth 2.0, SAML, and WS-Security across all integration surfaces
- Own tenant deployment strategy: sandbox to production promotion, Git-based version control of integration artifacts, and rollback planning
- HR Technology & Functional Knowledge
- Maintain a strong working understanding of core HR and payroll processes (hire-to-retire, compensation cycles, benefits enrollment, compliance reporting) sufficient to design integrations that reflect real business requirements
- Partner with Employee Experience, Recruiting, Payroll, Total Rewards, and Legal/Privacy to translate HR process requirements into sound technical architectures
- Understand how HR data flows across the enterprise: from Workday as the system of record through downstream payroll processors, benefits carriers, identity providers, and compliance platforms
- Proactively surface configuration and upstream data issues that affect integration reliability, and partner with functional owners to resolve them
- Bring an employee-centric lens to integration design so the technology we build translates to seamless experiences for the people it serves
- Technical Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence
- Act as a technical authority for Workday integrations across BizTech; influence architectural decisions in adjacent teams including middleware, Identity, and Data Platform
- Mentor and upskill senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair development, and documented standards
- Translate ambiguous, high-level business requirements into sound technical architectures; clearly communicate constraints, trade-offs, and risks to stakeholders at all levels
- Write authoritative Integration Design Documents and operational runbooks maintainable by the broader team
- Proactively identify systemic risks and integration portfolio health issues; drive resolution and communicate transparently with leadership
- Represent Talent Systems in enterprise architecture forums and vendor technical discussions on integration topics
- Your Expertise:
- Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 12+ years of industry experience in software development or systems integration
- 8+ years of hands-on Workday integration development covering the full lifecycle: requirements, design, build, testing, go-live, and post-production support
- Workday Integration Proficiency (personally written code required):
- Workday Studio: complex multi-step integrations, sub-integrations, custom error handling and fault frameworks, XSLT transformations
- Core Connectors: worker data, business process events, payroll and benefits outbound connectors
- Enterprise Interface Builder (EIBs): deep knowledge of appropriate use cases and limitations versus Studio
- Document Transforms: payload mapping and field-level transformation logic
- RaaS (Report-as-a-Service): advanced report design, calculated fields, and API endpoint exposure
- Workday Web Services (WWS): WSDL reading, SOAP/REST calls, versioning, and error response handling
- Workday-Native & Functional Knowledge:
- Expert proficiency in XSLT, XML, and JSON; comfortable with Java sufficient for Workday Studio custom steps
- Deep working knowledge of the Business Process Framework and how events trigger integration flows
- Familiarity with Workday functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence, sufficient to independently diagnose upstream data and process issues
- Strong foundational understanding of HR and payroll processes: hire-to-retire lifecycle, compensation and benefits administration, global compliance reporting
- how these processes generate the data that integrations carry
- Security, Compliance & Engineering Practices:
- Strong knowledge of data security and compliance: PGP, SFTP, OAuth 2.0, SAML, WS-Security, PII handling
- Proven experience managing integrations across Workday's semi-annual release cycle, including impact assessment and sandbox testing
- Git-based version control and structured deployment and change management practices
- Demonstrated record as a technical leader who has shaped architecture decisions and raised engineering quality across a team
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to write clear IDDs and runbooks, and present technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Preferred
- Workday Pro Certification in Integrations (highly valued)
- Hands-on experience with Workday Extend (data models, UI pages, Extend APIs); accelerates ramp into the owned Extend scope
- Workday Pro Certification in Extend
- Hands-on experience with Workday Orchestrate; accelerates ramp into the owned Orchestrate scope
- Experience with Workday payroll interfaces (PECI, PICOF) and third-party payroll providers
- Experience with middleware or iPaaS platforms and the architectural judgment to know when middleware fits versus native Workday integration or Extend
- Experience supporting global, multi-country production environments
- Knowledge of GDPR, India PDPB, or SOC 2 compliance requirements in the context of HR data flows
- Experience integrating LLM-based tools, AI agents, or automation platforms with enterprise HR or business systems
- Your Location:
- This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
- Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
- Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement
- allow us to attract creatively-led people
- to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
- We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
- We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
- How We'll Take Care of You:
- Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits
- Employee Travel Credits.
- Pay Range
- $180,000 — $225,000 USD
Required skills
WorkdayWorkday StudioCore ConnectorsEIBDocument TransformsRaaS APIWorkday Web ServicesSOAPRESTCustom ReportsCalculated FieldsBusiness Process FrameworkPECIPICOFWorkday Extend