Senior Full-Stack SDE — Security-Clearance Eligible

Workday for Public Sector; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in IxP to design, build, and operate secure, scalable services for high-security US Federal customers. You will collaborate with Product Managers, UX, design, and research across frontend to backend, and may require a TS/SCI w/ CI Poly clearance.

You will own services, lead features, and mentor peers in a fast-paced environment. You will balance speed with reliability, handle on-call duties, and drive non-functional requirements such as

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and deploying secure, high-throughput enterprise systems with multi-functional teams.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead / Lead Engineer) leading complex initiatives end-to-end (delivering 3+ multi-quarter projects) and setting architectural direction.
• 3+ years of direct operational ownership for critical, customer-facing production services (99.9%+ availability), including active on-call rotation participation and SLA/SLO-driven performance management (p95/p99 latency, MTTR).

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain robust, efficient, and testable code using modern languages and frameworks including TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, Rust, Spring, Webflux, Node.js, Express, React, and Cypress.
• Support services and customers in high-security airgapped environments from frontend to backend.
• Design and lead meaningful features with a strong focus on scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, usability and quality.
• Own day-to-day operations of services you build, including on-call support in partnership with infrastructure teams.
• Balance feature delivery speed with system reliability using defined service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Be a flexible teammate in a fast-paced product development team.
• Provide technical influence and lead technical discussions.
• Suggest product and pipeline enhancements.
• Manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and thrive in a multifaceted environment.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

On-call ownership

SLA/SLO management

DevOps experience

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Gradle

CI/CD systems

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in IxP to design, build, and operate secure, scalable services for high-security US Federal customers. You will collaborate with Product Managers, UX, design, and research across frontend to backend, and may require a TS/SCI w/ CI Poly clearance.

You will own services, lead features, and mentor peers in a fast-paced environment. You will balance speed with reliability, handle on-call duties, and drive non-functional requirements such as