Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

To support U.S. federal contracts, the full-time remote Senior Software Development Engineer will focus on building, running, and deploying large-scale, fault-tolerant systems using Workday's private cloud technology, AWS, and GCP while ensuring scalability, availability, and security of distributed web services.

Key responsibilities

• Focus on the scalability, availability, automation, performance, and security of distributed web services
• Participate in the team's paid on-call rotation and collaborate with engineering teams across multiple countries
• Engage in a culture of learning and innovation through hackathons and employee-led special interest guilds

Required qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years of development experience with building services in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Python, Ruby, Java)
• A minimum of 5 years of SRE/DevOps experience
• Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
• Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience