Workday

Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

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Reston, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$137k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Operate and provide on-call support for multiple services in partnership with service and infrastructure teams.
  • Design, analyze, troubleshoot, and operate large-scale distributed systems and public cloud infrastructure and applications.
  • Improve service architecture, operational practices, capacity planning, and distributed-system performance.
  • Instrument applications with metrics, logging, and tracing for observability.
  • Automate operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Participate in incident management and post-incident analysis.
  • Collaborate with development, infrastructure, service, and partner teams to improve service ownership and developer satisfaction.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Four years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems, public cloud infrastructure and applications, observability, capacity planning, performance optimization, incident management, post-incident analysis, and infrastructure-as-code automation.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance; an active TS/SCI with CI Poly is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annualized base salary ranges from $123,900 to $222,000 across listed U.S. locations, with the primary Reston, Virginia location ranging from $137,000 to $205,400.
  • May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
  • Supports mission-driven work for U.S. federal agencies on modernizing employee lifecycle and finance operations.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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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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