Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

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About the Team

About the Role

This role will handle the operations of many of our teams services sitting in the intersection between our development teams and our partners in infrastructure. Your partnership with these teams will drive improvements to our architecture and operating practices with the goal of enabling the smooth operation of our services for our customers. It will also handle on-call support for these services in conjunction with our service and infrastructure teams.

This role will be most successful when addressing a given services challenges with a sense of ownership while also driving the same sense of ownership with other teams which contribute to it.

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which due to federal government security requirements mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

About You

Do you love troubleshooting complex systems Working in partnership with others to brainstorm identify and complete improvements in our software and supporting systems

Basic Qualification

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 4 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Other Qualification

• Experience designing analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

• Hands-on operational experience with large-scale distributed systems.

• Experience designing analyzing and troubleshooting public cloud infrastructure and applications.

• Experience instrumenting applications for observability including metrics collection logging and tracing.

• Experience with capacity planning and performance optimization of distributed systems.

• Knowledge of incident management processes and post-incident analysis.

• Experience in automating operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Additional Considerations:

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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