# Software Development Engineer (US Federal)

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/363ca0cc-c25c-4005-aa0d-6c4dca41670b

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

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

## Summary

This role involves designing and operating distributed systems infrastructure—Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ—that power Workday's cloud platforms serving U.S. federal agencies. It suits senior backend engineers with 5+ years of systems experience who want to work on high-stakes, mission-critical infrastructure with security clearance requirements.

_Our summary, not Workday's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, ArgoCD, Chef, CI/CD, Erlang, Helm, Java, Kubernetes, Python, RabbitMQ, Redis, Ruby, Scala

## Required

- 5+ years distributed systems experience
- 5+ years software engineering on systems, infrastructure, or platforms
- 5+ years with Ruby, Golang, Python, Java, or Scala
- 5+ years on U.S. Federal projects
- SaaS platform operations familiarity
- Hybrid environment networking expertise (on-premise and cloud)
- U.S. citizenship (required for federal contract work)
- Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance

## Nice to have

- Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly security clearance
- Distributed systems software development under load conditions
- Chef configuration management experience
- Kubernetes and Helm deployment experience
- ArgoCD experience
- Open source internals code inspection capability
- Wide programming language experience
- DoD 8570/8140 compliance with IAT Level II certification and CE credential
- CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, or CASP+ certification

Apply on Workday's site: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Software-Development-Engineer--US-Federal-_JR-0105421