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Mid/Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform (US Federal)

Reston, VA · full time · Mid

$163,800 – $245,800

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What this role is

This role involves building observability and logging infrastructure for Workday's developer platform, serving U.S. federal agencies. You'll design backend services, APIs, and tooling that help developers understand system performance and reliability in highly secure, mission-critical environments.

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What they ask for

Required

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of backend services in production
3+ years of hands-on experience with microservice or event-driven architectures for large-scale distributed systems
3+ years of object-oriented programming with Java or similar language
Experience delivering backend services with APIs used by other teams or external clients
Experience with observability fundamentals including logging, metrics, and alerting
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
U.S. citizenship (naturalized or native)
Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. government security clearance

Nice to have

Active TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance
DoD 8570/8140 compliance with IAT Level II certification and current Computing Environment credential
Experience with Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, or OpenTelemetry
Experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes
Experience with AWS data services like Lambda, S3, Kinesis, or Athena
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
Mentoring experience and ability to influence technical direction across teams