Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

Workday•Reston, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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). May be required to be on site at client locations in the DC, MD, and VA (DMV) area. The Messaging, Streaming and Caching team is a full-service Distributed Systems Engineering team. We architect and provide async messaging, streaming, and NoSQL platforms and solutions that power the Workday products and SKUs ranging from core HCM, FIN, Integrations, and AI/ML. We develop client libraries and SDK's that make it easy for teams to build Workday products. We develop automation to deploy and run hundreds of clusters, and we also operate and tune our clusters as well. As a team member you will play a key role in improving our services and encouraging their adoption within Workday's infrastructure both in our private cloud and public cloud. As a member of this team you will design and build new capabilities from inception to deployment to exploit the full power of the core middleware infrastructure and services, and work hand in hand with our application and service teams!

Requirements

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.
You are a software engineer with distributed systems background and experience in systems like Kafka, Redis or RabbitMQ.
You have independently developed features and deployed them to large scale distributed systems clusters.
A minimum of 5 years of distributed systems experience
A minimum of 5 years of software engineering and systems, infrastructure or platforms experience.
A minimum of 5 years experience using one or more of the following: Ruby, Golang, Python, Java, Scala.
A minimum 5 years experience working on US Federal projects
Familiarity or prior experience operating large scale SaaS platforms.
Good systems and networking expertise working on hybrid environments, both on-premise and cloud

Nice To Haves

Experience in developing distributed system software and deployments that perform well and degrade gracefully under excessive load.
Experience with configuration management using Chef and service deployment on Kubernetes via Helm and ArgoCD.
Development experience with a wide range of programming languages, for example, Java, C/C++, Erlang, Python, Golang, etc.
Ability and willingness to learn complex open source service internals via code inspection.
Experience with current software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile
Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to partners outside of the team

Responsibilities

Design, build, and enhance critical distributed services, including Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ etc.
Design, develop, build, deploy and maintain core distributed services using a combination of open source and proprietary stacks across diverse infrastructure environments (Kubernetes, OpenStack, Bare Metal, etc.).
Design and develop core software modules for streaming, messaging and caching.
Construct observability modules, alerts and automation for Dashboard lifecycle management for the distributed services.
Build, deploy and operate infrastructure components in production environments.
Champion all aspects of streaming, messaging and caching with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence.
Evaluate and implement new open-source and cloud-native tools and technologies as needed.
Participate in the on-call rotation to support the distributed systems platforms.
Manage and optimize Workday within the U.S. AWS cloud regions, forming the core of the team responsible for this mission.
Partner with the Workday Federal Cyber Defense team to ensure security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health.