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Sr. Software Development Engineer

Workday Reston, VA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$123,900 - $222,000 USD per year

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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.

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