# Software Development Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $163,800 USD - $245,800 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 focus on outcomes that serve a larger mission, particularly in the U.S. federal sector.

You will join a highly motivated, collaborative engineering team that thrives on teamwork, open communication, and shared problem-solving. The team works with modern technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker to build resilient, reliable systems for customers.

**Job Overview:** As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in guiding Workday’s efforts to build, deploy, and scale solutions for our Kubernetes platform in AWS GovCloud. You will lead infrastructure automation, enhance CI/CD pipelines, build robust observability tools, and drive air-gapped deployment methodologies.

**Responsibilities:**

- Run, manage, and scale complex containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters deployed in AWS GovCloud environments.

- Provision and automate infrastructure, configurations, and deployment pipelines using Terraform, Terragrunt, Docker, AWS, and Argo CD.

- Design, implement, and maintain air-gapped deployment methodologies to support strict security, compliance, and isolation requirements.

- Build, maintain, and optimize comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and visibility into our managed services.

- Apply deep expertise in troubleshooting distributed systems to quickly diagnose and resolve complex platform, infrastructure, and network issues.

- Work closely with peer development teams, security leaders, and cross-functional partners across multiple locations to deliver reliable, high-impact outcomes.

- Implement and maintain enterprise security standards for the platform, ensuring full compliance with federal industry standards.

- Author clear technical documentation, participate in architectural reviews, and actively mentor team members to foster a culture of continuous learning.

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, or platform engineering systems (for Senior/P4).

- 3+ years of hands-on experience building, scaling, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, or platform engineering systems (for Mid-Level/P3).

- Proven proficiency with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Terragrunt.

- Hands-on experience managing continuous delivery pipelines using tools like Argo CD, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

- Proficiency in modern scripting or programming languages, with a preference for Go or Python.

- Demonstrated ability to independently lead technical initiatives, troubleshoot distributed systems, and mentor junior engineers.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Deep production experience managing containerized workloads in AWS (ideally AWS GovCloud) using Kubernetes and Docker.

- Practical experience implementing or managing air-gapped deployment methodologies and isolated cloud architectures.

- Background in building robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for distributed platforms.

- Familiarity with federal security frameworks.

- DoD 8570/8140 compliance at IAT Level II or higher.

**Pay Information:** The annualized base salary ranges for this role are: Primary Location: $163,800 USD - $245,800 USD Additional US Location(s): $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- AWS
- Argo CD
- Go
- Python

### Nice to have
- AWS GovCloud
- air-gapped deployment methodologies
- observability tools
- federal security frameworks
- DoD 8570/8140 compliance

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