Software Development Engineer - US Federal

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Are you eager to work on highly-scalable distributed systems? Come join our team of competent, personable engineers operating and improving Workday Government’s observability platform.

Role & Responsibilities

• Use Terraform and Argo CD to deploy services to EKS AWS in production environments
• Be responsible for the reliable operation of Metrics, Logging, Tracing, and Alerting services handling terabytes of data in tens of billions of documents across hundreds of indexes and tens of millions of active time series 
• Collaborate with our cyber defense team to ensure security operations, cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, compliance, and platform security health
• Participate in the on-call rotation supporting the observability platform
• Resolve issues internal customers may have with our services
• Write various forms of technical documentation, such as ADRs, RCAs, and runbooks
• Collaborate with managers and engineers at our parent company to ensure healthy engineering practices for both government and non-governmentnon-governemnt environments
• Build out test environments, tooling, and automation to implement CI/CD best practices
• Construct new metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards where there are gaps with what we can observe about our system and the other services using them
• You may be responsible for observability services deployed to an air-gapped region and you may be required to regularly work from a SCIF

• Demonstrable experience with Prometheus and Grafana Mimir
• Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes, Fluent Bit, Kafka, and Elasticsearch
• Strong DevOps knowledge and hands-on experience with IaC and CI/CD tools

• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and deploying highly-scalable software
• Experience deploying software to public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience Scripting skills with any programming language
• Understanding of system design, particularly distributed systems
• Good knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes
• Experience with Linux-based system administration

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.

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