# Sr. Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,900 - $222,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to join our Messaging, Streaming and Caching team. As a full-service Distributed Systems Engineering team, we architect and provide async messaging, streaming, and NoSQL platforms and solutions that power Workday products and SKUs. You'll play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workday's infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services

- Collaborate with application and service teams to ensure seamless integration

- Develop client libraries and SDKs that make it easy for teams to build Workday products

- Develop automation to deploy and run hundreds of clusters, and operate and tune our clusters as well

Requirements:

- 5 or more years of DevOps experience including Infrastructure automation, building CICD pipelines

- Good in System design and writing comprehensive technical design docs

- Proficient in Python programming

- Experience using technologies like Kubernetes/Docker

- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications:

- Specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+)

- Machine learning background

- Experience with communication protocols, RESTful services, service-oriented architecture, distributed systems, and microservices

- Prior experience with enterprise SaaS products

- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana

- Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins, and applying continuous deployment tool such as ArgoCD

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

- Annualized base salary range: $123,900 - $222,000 USD

- Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus

- Annual refresh stock grants

- Flexible work arrangements, with at least 50% of time spent in the office or in the field

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Git
- Jenkins
- ArgoCD
- System design
- DevOps
- Infrastructure automation
- CICD pipelines

### Nice to have
- Machine learning
- Communication protocols
- RESTful services
- Service-oriented architecture
- Distributed systems
- Microservices
- Enterprise SaaS products
- Monitoring tools like Grafana

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