Senior Software Development Engineer

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About the Team

We are looking for a highly motivated and Senior Engineer to join our growing Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team. You will play a critical role in building scaling observing and maintaining our Kubernetes-based platform and enabling our engineering organization to deliver capabilities and incremental products quickly and reliably. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies solve complicated problems and contribute to the foundation of our infrastructure. This role requires a strong technical background a passion for automation and a collaborative mindset.

This role involves collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones. You will need to be adept at communicating optimally and building positive relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.

About the Role

You have a growth mindset and will be part of a team promoting a diverse and inclusive environment where you and your workmates are happy energized and engaged and who are excited to come to work every day.

Responsibilities :

Design and implement : Build develop and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform including infrastructure automation CI / CD pipelines and observability tools.

Build and maintain : Build and maintain core platform components ensuring high availability scalability and security.

Automate and optimize : Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration management and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.

Troubleshooting and support : Provide support and solving for platform-related issues working closely with peer development teams to resolve problems.

Security and compliance : Implement and maintain security standard methodologies for the platform ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Documentation and knowledge sharing : Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes. Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.

Collaborate effectively with other engineers and development teams across multiple locations and time zones.

Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.

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

This role may require a security clearance at the TS / SCI w / CI Poly level. Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance. An active TS / SCI w / CI Poly is preferred.

Basic Qualifications :

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure DevOps and software development engineering skills.
• Bachelors degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience

Other Qualifications :

Preferred :

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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here .

Primary Location : (Tysons Corner)

Primary Location Base Pay Range : $163800 USD - $245800 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range : $148200 USD - $264000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds : in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Children Activity,Design,Account Management,Apache Commons,ERP,Java

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1