Workday

Software Development Engineer - ML Ops (US Federal)

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2 days ago
Reston, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop frameworks, automation, and tooling that improve developer efficiency and self-service capabilities.
  • Design, implement, test, document, operate, and maintain distributed systems, applications, frameworks, and ML Runtime components.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines for deploying, monitoring, and scaling machine learning runtime environments.
  • Deploy and orchestrate production containers using Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh technologies, ArgoCD, and related tools.
  • Develop products and services that streamline developer interactions with the ML platform.
  • Work with public cloud infrastructure and apply capacity management principles.
  • Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and technical leads to define requirements and deliver technical solutions.
  • Research, evaluate, prototype, and adopt ML tools with an emphasis on reliability and scale.
  • Build monitoring services, proactively resolve issues, maintain documentation and runbooks, and participate in rotational on-call support.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required because the role supports U.S. federal government contracts.
  • At least 3 years of DevOps experience, including infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline development.
  • Proficiency in Python programming and system design, including comprehensive technical design documentation.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for scaling software development efforts.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and deployment tools such as Git, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
  • Experience with machine learning, RESTful services, communication protocols, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and microservices.
  • Experience building monitoring services and using monitoring tools such as Grafana.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS products, technical documentation, runbooks, and rotating on-call support.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
  • Experience leading or mentoring team members and collaborating effectively across teams.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; active TS/SCI with CI Poly is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annualized base salary ranges from $137,000 to $205,400 for the primary Reston, Virginia location and from $123,900 to $222,000 for additional U.S. locations.
  • The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of time each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office flexibility.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits, reasonable accommodations, and equal employment opportunity protections.
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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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