# Sr Software Development Engineer - Core Platform Integration

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/37e201f5-20e0-41eb-8eaf-e633045eac55

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Pleasanton, CA
- Salary: 176000 – 264000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads cloud migration work at Workday, taking services from acquired companies off vendor-locked cloud infrastructure and onto Workday's standardized CP2 platform. It suits experienced infrastructure engineers who have shipped real migrations before and can write code, design cloud architecture, and navigate the messy technical details of moving production workloads.

_Our summary, not Workday's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Go, Grafana, Helm, Jenkins, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Python, Terraform, Terragrunt

## Required

- 7+ years software or infrastructure engineering experience
- 3+ years operating production workloads on AWS and/or GCP
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience
- Proficiency with AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Augment
- Experience planning and executing real cloud migrations, not just whiteboard designs
- Ability to handle stateful data, IAM, DNS, secrets, and undocumented dependencies during migrations

## Nice to have

- Strong current Kubernetes experience (EKS, GKE, or equivalent)
- Production-level Terraform and Terragrunt proficiency
- Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python for automation and tooling
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, or Harness
- Observability stack knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Operations Suite)
- Experience migrating managed cloud databases
- Secrets management and IAM least-privilege design
- Security auditing and compliance framework familiarity
- Multi-cloud experience across GCP and AWS

Apply on Workday's site: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USA-CA-Pleasanton/Sr-Software-Development-Engineer---Core-Platform-Integration_JR-0108019