Workday

Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

Workday$137K — $205K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 4 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • Experience designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Operational experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
  • Skilled in application observability and performance optimization.
  • Knowledge of incident management and automation practices.

Responsibilities

  • Support contracts with the U.S. Federal Government.
  • Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to improve architecture.
  • Drive operational excellence to ensure smooth service delivery.
  • Provide on-call support for service issues alongside infrastructure teams.
  • Foster a sense of ownership in team members for service challenges.
  • Innovate and implement solutions to enhance developer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule with a mix of in-office and remote options.
  • Participation in the Workday Bonus Plan and potential for stock options.
  • Comprehensive benefits package available.
Full Job Description
About the Role

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).

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

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.

We need creative and dedicated Software Engineers, like you, who really want to move the needle. You should enjoy working on projects that can significantly improve developer satisfaction and save the company millions of dollars. By nature, you are inquisitive and ready to question the status quo. You have a passion for exploring and implementing innovative techniques and approaches to solve complex and challenging problems. Most importantly of all you are a superlative collaborator and teammate and bring out the very best in everyone. You feel happiest when working with a highly capable and motivated team of people passionate about software and technology.

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

Basic Qualifications
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • 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 Qualifications
  • 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 click here.

Primary Location: USA.VA.Reston

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $137,000 USD - $205,400 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're 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 you'll 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.

About Workday

Workday, Inc. is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The Company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications designed for various companies, educational institutions and government agencies. As part of its applications, the Company provides embedded analytics that capture the content and context of everyday business events, facilitating informed decision-making from wherever users are working. Its applications include Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Other Applications. It also provides open, standards-based Web-services application programming interfaces, and pre-built packaged integrations and connectors. Workday, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Learn more about Workday
Size
15,932 employees
Market Cap
$42.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282.4 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+26.7%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
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