Sr Software Engineer, Devops

Workday Workday · Enterprise · McLean, VA

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer, DevOps at Workday, a company that positions itself as an AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale customer-facing systems using AWS and GCP, with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), production monitoring, incident response, and continuous integration. The engineer will work on cloud platform technologies, automate maintenance, and support engineering environments, collaborating with the Platform Engineering team for deployments. Experience with FedRAMP deployment and support is mentioned. While the company emphasizes its AI platform, the core responsibilities of this DevOps role are centered around infrastructure, automation, and system reliability, rather than direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, enhance, and maintain large-scale customer facing systems using AWS and GCP
  2. shape the future direction of our large, Infrastructure as Code, terraform
  3. respond to production monitoring, triage, fix, and resolution
  4. Retro and act on incidents to continually improve our systems and processes
  5. Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years DevOps experience
  • 5+ Experience with public Cloud platforms, specifically AWS
  • 5+ Proficiency with deployment automation / configuration management tools
  • 3+ years of Terraform experience
  • Experience debugging and optimizing systems and code
  • Ability to architect, analyze, and support complex distributed systems
  • Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications with Docker or Kubernetes

Nice to have

  • A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Consistent track record of building tooling, automation, and/or services in one or multiple languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash or Java)
  • Passion to optimize and automate, with the maturity to know when and where it’s appropriate
  • Mentoring and coaching engineers to inspire professional growth
  • Experience influencing and affecting technological change at the team level
  • Experience with FedRAMP environments is desired

What the JD emphasized

  • mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native)
  • FedRAMP deployment and support
  • Experience with FedRAMP environments is desired