Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and 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.
About the Team
The Talent Systems team within BizTech is the trusted technology partner to Employee Experience, Recruiting, Payroll, Procurement, Legal, and 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, and 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, and internal platforms, with Workday at the center. You'll partner closely with HR Centers of Excellence, IT Security, Finance, and external vendors to deliver enterprise-grade integration solutions that power Airbnb's global HR technology ecosystem.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Workday Integration Engineer, you will be the technical representative for integration initiatives critical to the success of BizTech and Airbnb. You will help shape our integration strategy and technical roadmap, influencing architectural decisions 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, and make architectural decisions. You'll drive "touchless" automation initiatives, reduce manual intervention, and ensure compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Your work will directly impact how thousands of Airbnb employees experience their payroll, benefits, time tracking, and HR processes.
As a Senior-level engineer, you'll strategize 6+ months ahead, proactively identify operational gaps, and establish patterns that improve the long-term success of BizTech and the Talent Systems team.
What You'll Own
Integration Development & Architecture
Architect, design, build, and maintain inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS API endpoints — with clear judgment on when each tool is the right choice (e.g., when EIB limitations require moving to Studio; when RaaS is appropriate vs. direct WWS calls)
Develop integrations against Workday Web Services (WWS), including WSDL interpretation, web service versioning, and request/response handling for both SOAP and REST endpoints
Build and expose RaaS API endpoints for internal consumers and external vendor partners; provide hands-on guidance to vendors building against Airbnb's API specifications
Handle high-volume data scenarios — payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, and global rollouts — with appropriate performance and scalability design
Workday-Native Depth
Build and maintain advanced Custom Reports and Calculated Fields to shape data for integration consumption
Work within and around the Business Process Framework — understanding how business process events trigger integration flows and how to safely build touchpoints without disrupting core HR workflows
Leverage Core Connectors and Business Processes to configure outbound integrations for benefits, payroll, and HR change events
Serve as subject matter expert on current and upcoming Workday capabilities, including Workday AI Features, Orchestrate, and Extend
Maintain integrations across Workday's semi-annual release cycle: proactively assess release notes for impact, test in sandbox, and deploy updates to production with documented change controls
Functional Configuration Awareness
Demonstrate working knowledge of Workday functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence — sufficient to navigate a tenant, read a business process definition, and identify upstream causes of integration failures without requiring a functional analyst to translate
Understand Workday payroll interfaces (PECI, PICOF) and how they interact with third-party payroll providers
Production Reliability & Data Governance
Own SLAs for your integration portfolio; build and maintain monitoring, alerting, retry logic, idempotency strategies, and runbooks so failures are caught early and resolved quickly
Implement PII handling, audit controls, and data reconciliation strategies that meet compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions (GDPR, India PDPB, SOC 2)
Enforce data security protocols: PGP, SSH, SFTP, HTTPS, OAuth 2.0, SAML, WS-Security
Manage tenant deployment strategy: sandbox → production promotion, version control of integration artifacts via Git, and rollback planning
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Provide advanced technical leadership on integration design decisions, influencing cross-domain solutions across BizTech and partner teams
Translate complex functional and business requirements into sound technical integration designs, clearly evaluating constraints and trade-offs for stakeholders at all levels
Partner with Employee Experience, Recruiting, Payroll, and IT Security teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions
Collaborate with adjacent middleware integration teams (e.g., MuleSoft) building integrations against Workday's exposed APIs — advising on RaaS endpoint security, ISU permissions, OAuth configuration, schema versioning, and rate limit management
Write thorough Integration Design Documents, technical specifications, and operational runbooks maintainable by others
Conduct code reviews and contribute to integration standards, reusable patterns, and governance practices across Talent Systems
Proactively identify risks, communicate trade-offs, and manage stakeholder expectations when constraints require it
Your Expertise
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
10+ years of industry experience in software development or systems integration
6+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience, covering the full lifecycle: requirements → design → build → testing → go-live → post-production support
Demonstrated, hands-on proficiency — meaning you have personally written the code — in:
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): including knowledge of where EIBs are appropriate and where their limitations require escalation to Studio
Document Transforms: payload mapping and field-level transformation logic
RaaS (Report-as-a-Service): advanced report design, calculated fields, and endpoint exposure
Workday Web Services (WWS): WSDL reading, SOAP/REST web service calls, versioning, and error response handling
Expertise building advanced Custom Reports and Calculated Fields to support integration logic
Working knowledge of the Business Process Framework and how events trigger and interact with integration flows
Expert proficiency in XSLT, XML, and JSON; proficiency in Java, XTT, and ETV sufficient for Studio development
Experience integrating Workday with downstream SaaS systems: payroll processors, benefits carriers, ATS platforms, identity providers, and HCM downstream systems
Familiarity with Workday functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence — enough to independently navigate a tenant and diagnose upstream data issues
Strong knowledge of data security and compliance requirements: PGP, SFTP, OAuth 2.0, SAML, WS-Security, PII handling
Experience managing integrations across Workday's semi-annual release cycle, including impact assessment and sandbox testing
Git-based version control and experience with structured deployment and change management processes
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to write clear IDDs and runbooks and present technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
Proven track record as a technical leader influencing architecture decisions across cross-functional teams
Preferred
Workday Pro Certification in Integrations (highly valued)
Experience with Workday payroll interfaces (PECI, PICOF) and third-party payroll providers
Experience with Workday Orchestrate and Extend capabilities
Experience with CloudPay or Global Payroll Connect (GPC)
Experience with middleware/iPaaS platforms (MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato) and the architectural judgment to know when middleware is appropriate vs. native Workday integration
Experience supporting global, multi-country production environments
Knowledge of GDPR, India PDPB, or SOC 2 compliance requirements in the context of HR data flows
