Senior Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

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About the Team

Software Engineer (DevOps): Designs, develops, analyzes, acquires, installs, modifies and supports operating systems, deployments, databases, utilities and Internet/intranet-related tools. Conducts programming and support activities, such as new or revised program language codes, processing routines and report generations. Conducts programming tasks including program design, program coding, debugging and documentation to increase flexibility in deployments.

About the Role

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).

We are seeking an exceptional Software Development Engineer to join our Performance, Resiliency & Scalability Engineering team. In this role, you will manage and optimize our Performance Lab in both private and public cloud environments, supporting and enhancing the deployment of entire Workday technology stack.

As part of our team, you will oversee and manage deployment of Workday technology stack on cloud environments, develop proprietary tools, and deliver analytics to enable optimized deployments company-wide. This role is ideal for engineers with a holistic approach to cloud deployment, performance, and scalability who thrive on driving innovation and system-wide improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize the large-scale Performance Lab in Private and Public Cloud (AWS & GCP).
• Develop and maintain deployment tools and analytics to support company-wide deployment flexibility and cost savings in public cloud
• Collaborate across teams to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient solutions.

Skills:

• Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform
• Configuration Management & Automation: Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, GitLab CI/CD
• Programming & Scripting Languages: Go (Golang), Python, Ruby, Java, Bash
• Database & Middleware: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, ZooKeeper, Kafka

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• This position requires to be a U.S. Citizen

• 6+ years in deploying large-scale, complex applications, with 3+ years in cloud-based deployments on AWS or GCP.

• 2+ years experience with automation tools and languages, including Ansible, Python, Go, Chef, and Puppet; proficient in CI/CD, build management and monitoring.

• 2+ years experience with networks, servers, storage, and operating systems in cloud environments; skilled in deployment orchestration and automation frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.

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