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Sr Software Development Engineer - Core Platform Integration

Pleasanton, CA · full time · Senior

$176,000 – $264,000

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What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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