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$137,000 – $205,400
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What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Kafka
- ArgoCD
- Chef
- CI/CD
- Erlang
- Helm
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Ruby
- Scala
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What they ask for
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