Software Development Engineer; US Federal

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Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun‑drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back.

In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

The Data Platform and Observability team, located in Pleasanton, CA;
Boston, MA;
Boulder, CO, Atlanta, GA, and Dublin, Ireland, empowers real‑time insights across Workday's platforms, infrastructure, and applications. Our mission is to develop and operate a large‑scale distributed data platform that fuels critically important Workday applications.

We provide software solutions for the collection, ingestion, storage, and visualization of critical data assets. We manage hundreds of terabytes of data, encompassing billions of messages generated daily by Workday applications and underlying services. If you're passionate about crafting efficient software or optimizing and scaling large distributed systems, you'll find a fulfilling home with us.

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).

Are you eager to work on highly‑scalable distributed systems? Come join our team of competent, personable engineers operating and improving Workday Government’s observability platform.

• Use Terraform and Argo CD to deploy services to EKS AWS in production environments
• Be responsible for the reliable operation of Metrics, Logging, Tracing, and Alerting services handling terabytes of data in tens of billions of documents across hundreds of indexes and tens of millions of active time series
• Collaborate with our cyber defense team to ensure security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health
• Participate in the on‑call rotation supporting the observability platform
• Resolve issues internal customers may have with our services
• Write various forms of technical documentation, such as ADRs, RCAs, and runbooks
• Collaborate with managers and engineers at our parent company to ensure healthy engineering practices for both government and non‑government environments
• Build out test environments, tooling, and automation to implement CI/CD best practices
• Construct new metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards where there are gaps with what we can observe about our system and the other services using it
• You may be responsible for observability services deployed to an air‑gapped region and you may be required to regularly work from a SCIF

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government…