Associate Software Development Engineer - Kubernetes Cloud Platform (US Federal)

About the position

At Workday, we currently have a position open for a Software Developer: Kubernetes Mesh Networking in Cloud Platform Engineering. This team is building a state-of-the-art multi-cloud platform to host thousands of customers seamlessly across public and private clouds. We are looking for an experienced engineer to help develop and deploy service communication technologies to support existing and future networking needs for cloud native microservices and legacy services migrating to cloud. Resilience and scalability are the top priorities for our platform and this role will involve maximising the available solutions through thoughtful design, deployment and configuration, in addition to open source community participation and working closely with internal customers to understand their services. The team operates as a software product team, using Scrum and DevOps practices to deliver the software solutions needed by our customers for seamless deployment to a true multi-cloud platform. Our challenge is to meet the complex service connectivity, performance and security needs of our services, in a repeatable and predictable manner across our platform. The core technologies used by the Service Communication team today include Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of Workday's industry leading products and work with talented internal engineering teams to help them deploy to a multi-cloud environment using modern cloud-native orchestration, deployment and monitoring technology
• Work with the upstream community to improve and optimise Istio and Envoy for large scale, high uptime deployments
• Use Istio Service Mesh to deliver innovative service connectivity features to internal services allowing high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades and continuous deployment
• Help create a centre of excellence for Cloud networking technologies in the Platforms organization: Ingress, Egress and Service Mesh
• Work closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with the needs of the business

Requirements

• 2+ years experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)
• 2+ years experience with running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions)
• Experience with a public cloud platform: AWS, GCP
• US Citizen

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience designing and building a microservice architecture
• Deep knowledge of and experience with Linux
• Familiar with Service mesh technologies, ideally Istio / Envoy
• Ability to communicate effectively to different customers (product management, team mates, external teams using our platform)
• Experience working in an Agile environment/ with Agile development methodologies
• Experience developing automation solutions
• Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, configuration management
• Knowledge of standard methodologies for Cloud Native infrastructure management and operations
• Knowledge of CI / CD principles and standard processes

Benefits

• Workday Bonus Plan
• Annual refresh stock grants
• Flexible work schedule
• Comprehensive benefits package