Workday

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

$148K–$264K

USA.VA.Reston · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 9, 2026

Experience: Mid: 5+ years professional software engineering, including 3+ years with distributed architectures and object-oriented programming. Senior: 7+ years professional software engineering, including 5+ years with distributed architectures and object-oriented programming.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field.

About the job

Build and operate secure, scalable observability services and infrastructure for Workday’s Developer Platform in U.S. federal environments.

Develop backend services and APIs for observability and logging, including automated tests and code reviews.
Automate operational tasks and improve deployment-platform self-service; document tools and systems.
Support compliant federal deployments and observability architecture, collaborating across teams.

U.S. citizenship (naturalized or native); ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.
Mid-level: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience; 3+ years with microservice or event-driven architectures and object-oriented programming with Java or similar.
Senior-level: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience; 5+ years designing and operating microservice or event-driven architectures and object-oriented programming with Java or similar.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or a related technical field.

Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance.
DoD 8570/8140 compliance with at least IAT Level II certification, a current CE credential, and an approved specialty certification.

$163,800 USD - $245,800 USD (base salary); $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD (base salary)

Java, Kotlin, Golang, Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes

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