Software Development Engineer, DevOps - Lifecycle Platform; US Federal

About The Team

Join a creative and collaborative team delivering platform engineering tools for public and private cloud environments. We partner with application development teams from architecture design to deployment and help ensure their services are healthy in production customer environments. Your contributions to our team will enable innovative solutions for service scaling, self‑service operations, toil reduction, service resilience, cost control, and policy compliance for the growing number of services we support.

We are a group of capable professionals that lean on agile and SRE methods to achieve a productive and balanced team environment. We strive to achieve continuous improvement without changing for the sake of change. Our team is passionate about supporting both the technology and teams that deliver systems used by millions of people.

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

• Build, run, and deploy large‑scale, fault‑tolerant systems using Workday's private cloud technology, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Focus on the scalability, availability, automation, performance and security of distributed web services
• Participate in the team's paid on‑call rotation – Work closely with engineering teams in the US, Canada, and Ireland to deliver next‑generation applications and services for Workday
• Engage in a culture of learning and innovation through hackathons, online course offerings, and employee‑led special interest guilds
• Be a part of Workday's amazing people‑first culture and experience fun benefits like clubs and team events

• A minimum of 5 years of development experience with building services and tooling in one or more of the following languages:
  Go, Python, Java.
• A minimum of 2 years of SRE/Dev Ops experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience automating deployment, scaling, and/or management of containerized applications with Kubernetes.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with public Cloud platforms: AWS or GCP.
• This role may require a security clearance at the TS/SCI w/CI Poly level. Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance. An active TS/SCI w/CI Poly is preferred.

• Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
• A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
• Desire to optimize continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Skill in automating routine tasks to eliminate toil
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers to inspire professional growth
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and analyzing algorithms to solve complex problems, optimize business processes, improve data analysis, and enhance decision‑making strategies
• Proficient in the entire software lifecycle (conception, design, programming, testing, and maintenance), applying knowledge of programming languages, data structures, and system build to deliver custom solutions and ensure software performance and security
• Experienced in tracking and managing code changes using SCM tools, including version and branch management, and conflict resolution
• Capable of encouraging a positive and inclusive team environment to improve team efficiency, facilitate effective decision‑making, and assist with project management
• Able to streamline the development process and maintain codebase integrity, ensuring accurate documentation and reversibility of changes

Primary

Location:

USA.VA.McLean (Tyson's Corner)

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $135,200 USD - $202,900 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD

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