Senior SDE - Federal Cloud Platform & Automation

Workday, Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Reston, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will design, deploy, and optimize the company’s cloud stack for U.S.

Federal contracts, focusing on scalable deployments and robust tooling. The role requires hands-on development with Go, Python, and Java, plus experience with AWS/GCP/Azure and container orchestration. You will collaborate across security, platform, and enterprise teams to improve performance and

Qualifications

• 2+ years deploying large-scale, complex applications, with 3+ years in cloud-based deployments on AWS or GCP.
• 1+ years experience with automation tools and languages, including Ansible, Python, Go, Chef, and Puppet; proficient in CI/CD, build management and monitoring.
• 1+ years experience with networks, servers, storage, and operating systems in cloud environments; skilled in deployment orchestration and automation frameworks.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize Workday in the U.S. Federal regions and in doing so, form the nexus of the core team responsible for this mission as well as closely working with our commercial software engineering teams responsible for the overall Workday platform.
• Partner with the Workday Federal Cyber Defense team responsible for security operations, overall cybersecurity posture, governance, risk, and compliance, and platform security health.
• Develop and maintain deployment tools and analytics to support company-wide deployment flexibility and cost savings.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient solutions.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Jenkins

Git

TeamCity

GitLab CI/CD

Go

Python

Ruby

Java

Bash

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

TeamCity

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Reston, VA is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Federal Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will design, deploy, and optimize the company’s cloud stack for U.S.

Federal contracts, focusing on scalable deployments and robust tooling. The role requires hands-on development with Go, Python, and Java, plus experience with AWS/GCP/Azure and container orchestration. You will collaborate across security, platform, and enterprise teams to improve performance and