Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

About the Role

This role will handle the operations of many of our team’s services, sitting in the intersection between our development teams and our partners in infrastructure. Your partnership with these teams will drive improvements to our architecture and operating practices with the goal of enabling the smooth operation of our services for our customers. It will also handle on-call support for these services in conjunction with our service and infrastructure teams.

This role will be most successful when addressing a given service’s challenges with a sense of ownership, while also driving the same sense of ownership with other teams which contribute to it.

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).

About You

Do you love troubleshooting complex systems? Working in partnership with others to brainstorm, identify, and complete improvements in our software and supporting systems?

Basic Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

4 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Other Qualification

Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Hands-on operational experience with large-scale distributed systems.

Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting public cloud infrastructure and applications.

Experience instrumenting applications for observability, including metrics collection, logging, and tracing.

Experience with capacity planning and performance optimization of distributed systems.

Knowledge of incident management processes and post-incident analysis.

Experience in automating operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.

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. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location : USA.CO.BoulderPrimary Location Base Pay Range : $128,800 USD - $193,200 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD

Additional Considerations :

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below :

02 / 06 / 2026