Mid​/Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform; US Federal

Overview

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. The minute you join, you’ll feel it in our products, our culture, and how we show up for one another.

The Developer Platform Observability team builds the tools and infrastructure that power visibility, performance, and reliability across Workday’s Developer Platform. If you are energized by building infrastructure that makes complex systems understandable and gives developers confidence in what they ship, this is the team for you.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Platform Observability team, you will design and deliver scalable, secure, and developer‑friendly solutions that support everything from logs and metrics to system health and diagnostics. You will act as a key technical liaison between the Developer Platform and the Workday Government organization, influencing our core observability strategy while ensuring compliance with Federal client requirements.

You must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native) as all employees on this contract must be US citizens, and you may need to obtain a TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance. Availability to work onsite at client locations in the DMV area may be required.

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that support customer observability and logging systems.
• Apply algorithmic thinking and object‑oriented design to create maintainable and performant solutions.
• Write comprehensive automated tests and participate in code reviews to ensure quality and resiliency.
• Identify and eliminate manual operational work by automating tasks and improving the self‑service capabilities of our deployment platform.
• Author and maintain clear, usable technical documentation for internal users and team members.
• Collaborate with other specialists across the organization to understand use cases and deliver solutions that scale.
• Support compliant deployments of services and new metrics backend architecture in federal environments, including AGR.
• Participate in team discussions and design sessions with candid communication and a collaborative mindset.

You will hold a TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance, or be eligible to obtain one. You have strong software development experience, fluency in modern backend languages, and a track record of writing clear, maintainable code. You are adept at simplifying complex problems into scalable, practical implementations and thrive in a fast‑moving environment.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of backend services in production.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with microservice or event‑driven architectures for large‑scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of experience in object‑oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable services.
• Experience delivering backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including responsibility for basic observability (logging, metrics, and alerting).
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership and end‑to‑end delivery of backend services in production.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing and operating microservice or event‑driven architectures for large‑scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience in object‑oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable, performant services at scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including end‑to‑end responsibility for observability (logging, metrics, and alerting).
• Experience influencing…