# Software Engineer - Messaging, Streaming and Caching

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Messaging, Streaming and Caching team. As a member of this team, you will play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workday's infrastructure. You will design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc.

- Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc.).

- Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching.

- Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services.

- Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments.

- Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence.

- Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed.

- Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms.

- Manage and optimize Workday within the U.S. AWS cloud regions, forming the core of the team responsible for this mission.

- Partner with the Workday Federal Cyber Defense team to ensure security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health.

**Requirements:**

- MUST BE A US CITIZEN

- A minimum of 10 years of distributed systems experience

- A minimum of 10 years of software engineering and systems, infrastructure or platforms experience.

- A minimum of 10 years experience using one or more of the following: Ruby, Golang, Python, Java, Scala.

- A minimum 10 years experience working on US Federal projects

- Familiarity or prior experience operating large scale SaaS platforms.

- Good systems and networking expertise working on hybrid environments, both on-premise and cloud

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load.

- Experience with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD.

- Development experience with a wide range of programming languages, for example, Java, C/C++, Erlang, Python, Golang, etc.

- Ability and willingness to learn complex open source service internals via code inspection.

- Experience with current software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile

- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to partners outside of the team

- Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+)

**Salary:**

- Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston

- Primary Location Base Pay Range: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD

- Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Distributed Systems
- Kafka
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Kubernetes
- OpenStack
- Ruby
- Golang
- Python
- Java
- Scala

### Nice to have
- Chef
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- C/C++
- Erlang
- Agile
- CompTIA CySA+
- GICSP
- CASP+

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