Workday

Senior Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

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1 day ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing observability services.
  • Develop data capture, collection, ingestion, real-time processing, and batch processing systems across Kubernetes, OpenStack, bare-metal, and other infrastructure environments.
  • Construct metrics ingestion pipelines, alert definitions, and automation for dashboard lifecycle management.
  • Build and deploy infrastructure components in production and operate Workday in air-gapped U.S. AWS cloud regions.
  • Champion observability data quality, integrity, and availability and evaluate new open-source and cloud-native tools.
  • Participate in the observability platform on-call rotation.
  • Partner with Federal Cyber Defense on security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health.

Requirements

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Strong software engineering background with a record of delivering high-quality products at scale.
  • Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python; Go is a plus.
  • Understanding of high-performance data capture and collection systems, API design, reliable data delivery, time-series databases, and log collection and management.
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux.
  • 10+ years of experience building high-performance data ingestion software and addressing concurrency, latency, and efficiency challenges.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, and Terraform.
  • Experience with the Prometheus ecosystem, Elasticsearch, Grafana, InfluxData, PromQL, InfluxQL, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliance with at least IAT Level II certification, a current Computing Environment credential, and an approved specialty certification such as CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, or CASP+.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance; active TS/SCI with CI Poly is preferred.
  • Strong interpersonal, technical, and communication skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with possible on-site work at client locations in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodation support are available.

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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