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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

Software Development Engineer (SDE)

Workday Reston, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$137,000 USD - $205,400 USD per year

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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

Nice to have

  • CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Certification
  • AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Development-Engineer---US-Federal_JR-0109457

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