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

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Platform Observability team, you will design and deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions that support everything from logs and metrics to system health and diagnostics. This is a hands-on engineering position where code quality, thoughtful design, and tight-knit collaboration are key to success. This role serves as a key technical liaison between the Developer Platform and the Workday Government organization.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that support customer observability and logging systems; Apply algorithmic thinking and object-oriented design to create maintainable and performant solutions; Write comprehensive automated tests and participate in code reviews to ensure quality and resiliency; Identify and eliminate manual operational work by automating tasks and improving the self-service capabilities of our deployment platform; Author and maintain clear, usable technical documentation for internal users and team members; Collaborate with other specialists across the organization to understand use cases and deliver solutions that scale; Support compliant deployments of services and new metrics backend architecture in federal environments, including AGR; Participate in team discussions and design sessions with candid communication and a collaborative mindset

Requirements

United States citizenship (naturalized or native) due to U.S. Federal Government contract requirements; Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance; May require security clearance at TS/SCI w/CI Poly level; Mid Level: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of backend services in production; Mid Level: 3+ years of hands-on experience with microservice or event-driven architectures for large-scale distributed systems; Mid Level: 3+ years of experience in object-oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable services; Mid Level: Experience delivering backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including responsibility for basic observability (logging, metrics, and alerting); Senior Level: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership and end-to-end delivery of backend services in production; Senior Level: 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating microservice or event-driven architectures for large-scale distributed systems; Senior Level: 5+ years of experience in object-oriented programming with Java or a similar language, applying design patterns to build maintainable, performant services at scale; Senior Level: Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of backend services that expose APIs used by other teams or external clients, including end-to-end responsibility for observability; Senior Level: Experience influencing technical direction across teams and mentoring other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance; Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field

Nice to have

Active TS/SCI w/CI Poly clearance is preferred; Preferred DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+); Experience with observability technologies such as Grafana Loki or Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Beats, Logstash, or OpenTelemetry; Experience with cloud-native architectures and tooling (for example Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Helm, or Envoy); Experience with AWS data and compute services such as Lambda, S3, Kinesis, Iceberg, Athena, or Glue; Experience building backend services using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Golang, and RESTful APIs; Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (for example CloudFormation or Terraform); Ability to simplify complex technical problems into scalable, practical implementations; Strong collaboration and communication skills; Demonstrated commitment to automated testing and code quality; Curiosity and creativity in solving problems and improving developer experience

Benefits

Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus; Annual refresh stock grants; Flex Work (spend at least half of time in office or in the field); Comprehensive benefits