Workday
Software Development Engineer - US Federal
$124K–$222K
USA.VA.Reston · Flex · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a United States citizen (naturalized or native).
About the job
Develops and operates Workday’s federal cloud platform, improving deployments, reliability, security, performance, and scalability in AWS Gov Cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Manage Workday deployments in U.S. Federal regions and build deployment tools and analytics.
- Support Kubernetes infrastructure, including patching, maintenance, troubleshooting, and resiliency failover/failback exercises.
- Perform incident management, monitoring, alerting, root-cause analysis, and collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and AWS Cloud Stack; proficiency in Terraform and at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go.
- Experience building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools; experience with observability tools.
- Experience supporting a 24X7 on-call rotation; strong incident troubleshooting skills and experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks.
Nice to have
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification
Pay
$137,000 USD - $205,400 USD (base salary); $123,900 USD - $222,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Go (Golang)
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