# Mid/Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform (US Federal) **Company**: Workday **Location**: Reston, VA **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Engineer---Developer-Platform--US-Federal-_JR-0105497?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bd09c086-1ba ## Description We’re Workday, a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. As a Mid/Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Platform Observability team, you will design and deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions that support everything from logs and metrics to system health and diagnostics. **About the Role** This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native). As a Software Engineer on the Developer Platform Observability team, you will: - Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that support customer observability and logging systems. - Apply algorithmic thinking and object-oriented design to create maintainable and performant solutions. - Write comprehensive automated tests and participate in code reviews to ensure quality and resiliency. - Identify and eliminate manual operational work by automating tasks and improving the self-service capabilities of our deployment platform. - Author and maintain clear, usable technical documentation for internal users and team members. - Collaborate with other specialists across the organization to understand use cases and deliver solutions that scale. - Support compliant deployments of services and new metrics backend architecture in federal environments, including AGR. - Participate in team discussions and design sessions with candid communication and a collaborative mindset. **Requirements** - Strong software development experience, with fluency in modern backend languages and design principles. - Proficiency in API development, code testing, and object-oriented programming. - A knack for simplifying complex technical problems into scalable and practical implementations. - Strong team collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across functions and roles. - A commitment to trust building, accountability, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment. - Curiosity and creativity in solving problems and improving developer experience. **Basic Qualifications (Mid Level Software Engineer)** - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of backend services in production. - 3+ years of hands-on experience with microservice or event-driven architectures for large-scale distributed systems. - 3+ years of experience in object-oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable services. - Experience delivering backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including responsibility for basic observability (logging, metrics, and alerting). - Bachelor’s degree or higher, in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field. **Basic Qualifications (Senior Software Engineer)** - 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership and end-to-end delivery of backend services in production. - 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating microservice or event-driven architectures for large-scale distributed systems. - 5+ years of experience in object-oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable, performant services at scale. - Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including end-to-end responsibility for observability (logging, metrics, and alerting). - Experience influencing technical direction across teams and mentoring other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance. - Bachelor's degree or higher, in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field. **Pay Information** 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: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD ## Skills ### Required - Java - object-oriented programming - API development - code testing - microservice architecture - event-driven architecture - backend services - observability - logging - metrics - alerting ### Nice to have - DoD 8570/8140 compliant - IAT Level II certification - Computing Environment (CE) credential - CompTIA CySA+ - GICSP - CASP+ - Grafana Loki - Prometheus - Elasticsearch - Beats - Logstash - OpenTelemetry - Docker - Kubernetes - Istio - Helm - Envoy - AWS data and compute services - Lambda - S3 - Kinesis - Iceberg - Athena - Glue - Infrastructure as Code tools - CloudFormation - Terraform --- Source: [Apply at workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Engineer---Developer-Platform--US-Federal-_JR-0105497?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)