# Software Development Engineer (SDE)

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We’re seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to be part of the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team.

As a SDE on the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team, you will focus on design, development, analysis, acquisition, installation, modification and support of operating systems, deployments, utilities and network-related tools. You will conduct programming and support activities, such as new or revised program language codes, processing routines and report generations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage and optimize Workday in the U.S. Federal regions

- Partner with the Workday Federal Cyber Defense team responsible for security operations

- Develop and maintain deployment tools and analytics to support company-wide deployment flexibility and cost savings

- Collaborate across teams to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient solutions

- Support Kubernetes Infrastructure - Patching, Maintenance, & troubleshooting

- Conduct Resiliency Failover/Failback exercises

- Perform incident management, proactive alerting/monitoring, and conduct Root Cause analysis

Skills:

- Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform

- Configuration Management & Automation: Terraform, CloudFormation

- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

- CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git

- Programming & Scripting Languages: Go (Golang), Python, Ruby, Java, Bash

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience

- Must have strong understanding of Kubernetes & AWS Cloud Stack

- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go programming language proficiency

- Proficiency in Infrastructure Automation tools like Terraform

- Experience with building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD

- Experience working in any of the Observability tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or so

- Strong analytical and Incident troubleshooting skills

- Experience on 24X7 On-call rotation basis support

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

- Experiance with Security Auditing and Compliance frameworks

Workday Pay Transparency Statement: The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.

Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston Primary Location Base Pay Range: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Git
- Go
- Python
- Ruby
- Java
- Bash

### Nice to have
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification

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