Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

Workday • Boulder, CO

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team The Productivity Technologies team within Workday builds and operates products and services ranging from email and messaging services to sophisticated spreadsheets and print integrations to video streaming services, among many others. We work across the full stack at Workday, from frontend to backend, applying both public cloud and other 3rd-party integrations. This range of products and technologies ensures there's never a dull moment! 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?

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees