# Software Development Engineer, SRE  (US Federal)

Hiring organization: [Workday](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/workday)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2bc3b15d-e98b-466d-bdaa-a7f71639edba

Listed on Workday's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Location: Reston, VA
- Salary: 137000 – 205400 USD per year

## Summary

This role manages operations for Workday Government's services supporting U.S. federal agencies, working at the intersection of development and infrastructure teams to improve architecture and support on-call operations. It suits engineers who enjoy troubleshooting distributed systems, driving operational improvements, and collaborating across teams on mission-critical work.

_Our summary, not Workday's wording._

## Skills named

Capacity Planning, Incident Management, Infrastructure as Code

## Required

- US citizenship
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages

## Nice to have

- TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance (active preferred)
- Experience designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Hands-on operational experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with public cloud infrastructure and applications
- Metrics collection, logging, and tracing implementation
- Capacity planning and performance optimization
- Incident management and post-incident analysis knowledge
- Infrastructure provisioning automation using IaC tools

Apply on Workday's site: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Development-Engineer--SRE---US-Federal-_JR-0105392