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Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

Workday

Reston, VA · full time

$137,000 – $205,400

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What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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

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