Software Development Engineer - AWS

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About the Team

You will join our new Learning Packaged Content Atlanta team, working closely with our Dublin/ Ireland based team, to build scalable and reliable solutions to handle and deliver rich content packages (SCORM/ AICC etc). We are looking for a highly motivated Software engineer to join us in helping Workday to deliver reliable, resilient SaaS products to our customers.

The Packaged Content team is responsible for the architecture, maintenance, deployment, provisioning and monitoring of the multiple services that support all standards-based e-Learning content (SCORM/ AICC/ xAPI etc) within the Workday product and also building exciting product features to support and enhance these services. Our tech stack includes AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kotlin, Scala and Python
This position will partner closely with the wider Workday organization in the US and Canada.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer in our team, you will have the opportunity to design and write software and work on innovative cloud platform technologies (AWS, GCP) that will have an impact on millions of people through our diverse global client base. You will also work closely with our DevOps Engineers in deploying changes to our engineering environments.

About You

What will you be doing?

• Design and develop software that enables end users to consume media content

• Contribute to gathering technical requirements and architectural decision making

• Mentor other developers by sharing your expertise

• Innovate on new products and features that can reach millions of users

• Respond to production monitoring: triage, fix, and resolution. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes.

• Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews

• Drive process and tooling improvements

• Work on an Agile Scrum team that delivers on shared commitments

• FedRAMP deployment and support

Basic Qualifications

About You

• 4 + years of working knowledge of one or more major programming languages including Java and Python (Other desirable languages Kotlin, Scala).

• 4+ years of proven experience delivering and scaling production quality software

• 4 + Experience using architectural patterns and standard development methodologies

• 2+ years of Experience in successfully delivering cloud-based web applications in AWS

Other Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Ability to analyze and support complex distributed systems.

• Knowledge of technologies and patterns used within AWS, including EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora RDS, and Terraform.

• Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code.

• Ability to influence