Sr Software Development Engineer

Position OverviewAs a member of the Intelligent Automation team you will assist and lead in the research, development, build, and support of scale remote procedure call, automation, orchestration, and heuristics-based DevOps/AIOps solutions across a wide swath of Workday’s technical areas. Our IA team has built several critical tools that support Workday’s SaaS properties, its engineers, and its management. Our products and tools typically go from a need based conceptual discussion with our stakeholders to production deployment. We follow agile methodologies. We look to amplify or reuse our existing frameworks where possible but are always developing and evaluating new technology to meet our customer’s needs: 
Our key focus: 

• To maximize Workday’s automation investments by creating platforms and services that enable engineers the ability to compose, execute, schedule, and track highly repetitive automation and orchestration tasks through a consistent, intuitive, and scalable self-service framework.
• Provide cost optimization by improving operational efficiency and business agility through automation
• Provide risk mitigation by converting error prone human driven manual tasks into data, event, or response initiated repeatable automation as code at scale

 Core Education Requirements
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent. Degree should be composed of coursework structured to build a core foundation in the theory of computation. Relevant industry or open source experience may be considered as an alternative to academic qualifications. 
 Core Technical/Engineering RequirementsNOTE: The following are examples of specific technical items that can be swapped with equivalent technologies. The interviewer will be able to distinguish between related technologies and be able to determine how the candidates technical experience matches with the necessary technical skills to perform the job.

• IaaS technology – AWS/Azure/GCP – Full Understanding and ability to construct a complete cloud infrastructure composed of compute, storage (object/block), network, database, interfacing services, security rules, containers, and container management technology (CNCF). Candidate should have familiarity with how to perform build automation and provisioning tasks through terraform, puppet/chef/ansible, helm, k8s etc.
• Core Coding Experience – Highly proficient in at least one of the following functional languages: Ruby, Go, C, Java, or Python. Ability to transfer tacit knowledge of one language to another within a reasonable period. Referenceable work on Opensource projects within GitHub are a plus.
• Agile Methodologies – Have familiarity with how to work and interact within an Agile team.

5 or more years of experience in industry performing a variety of technical and leadership roles but primarily in a development lead engineering capacity. A MS in Computer Science will be considered to be an acceptable equivalent if applicant has less than 5 years of experience in industry. Contributions to Opensource projects will also be considered in lieu of experience of formal accreditations.