Workday

Senior Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

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1 day ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$148k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and enhance observability services for monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing.
  • Develop high-performance data capture, collection, ingestion, and processing services for real-time and batch workloads.
  • Construct metrics ingestion pipelines, alert definitions, and dashboard lifecycle automation.
  • Build and deploy infrastructure components in production across Kubernetes, OpenStack, bare-metal, and AWS environments.
  • Operate and optimize Workday in air-gapped U.S. AWS cloud regions and participate in the observability platform on-call rotation.
  • Maintain data quality, integrity, and availability while evaluating open-source and cloud-native technologies.
  • Partner with the Federal Cyber Defense team on cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required because the role supports U.S. Federal Government contracts.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of experience building high-performance data ingestion software and addressing concurrency, latency, and efficiency challenges.
  • Strong software engineering experience delivering high-quality products at scale and designing systems that meet business needs.
  • Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python; Go is a plus.
  • Experience with high-performance data capture and collection systems, API design, reliable data delivery, time-series databases, and log collection and management.
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, and infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, and Terraform.
  • Experience with the Prometheus ecosystem, Elasticsearch, Grafana, InfluxData, PromQL, InfluxQL, and Helm.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; active TS/SCI with CI Poly is preferred.
  • Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliance with at least IAT Level II certification, a current Computing Environment credential, and one approved specialty certification such as CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, or CASP+.
  • Strong interpersonal, technical, communication, prioritization, and multitasking skills.

Benefits

  • Annualized base salary for the primary location is $163,800-$245,800, with an additional U.S. location range of $148,200-$264,000; the role may also be eligible for a bonus plan and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday uses a flexible hybrid model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field with customers, prospects, or partners.
  • Employees may be required to work onsite at client locations in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.
  • The role includes participation in an on-call rotation and may require obtaining and maintaining a TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSChefElasticsearchGoGrafanaHelmInfluxDBJavaKubernetesLinuxOpenStackPrometheusPythonTerraform

Categories

Workday

About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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