Associate Software Development Engineer - Kubernetes Service Mesh (US Federal)

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About the Team

Workday currently has a position open for a Software Developer: Kubernetes Mesh Networking in Cloud Platform Engineering. To support Workday’s rapid growth, this team is building a state-of-the-art multi-cloud platform to host thousands of customers seamlessly across public and private clouds.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to help develop and deploy service communication technologies to support existing and future networking needs for cloud native microservices and legacy services migrating to cloud. Resilience and scalability are the top priorities for our platform and this role will involve maximising the available solutions through thoughtful design, deployment and configuration, in addition to open source community participation and working closely with internal customers to understand their services.

The team operates as a software product team, using Scrum and DevOps practices to deliver the software solutions needed by our customers for seamless deployment to a true multi-cloud platform.

Our challenge is to meet the complex service connectivity, performance and security needs of our services, in a repeatable and predictable manner across our platform. To deliver these requirements at scale, with industry leading uptime and while minimising onboarding and operational friction.

The core technologies used by the Service Communication team today include Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy.

If you are passionate about cloud-native communication solutions and would like to play a key role in developing Workday's leading cloud-hosted architecture, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Role

This role will support one or more direct or indirect contracts with the U.S. Federal Government which, due to federal government security requirements, mandates that all Workday personnel working on the contracts be United States citizens (naturalized or native).

You will have an opportunity to

• Develop a deep understanding of Workday’s industry leading products and work with talented internal engineering teams to help them deploy to a multi-cloud environment using modern cloud-native orchestration, deployment and monitoring technology

• Work with the upstream community to improve and optimise Istio and Envoy for large scale, high uptime deployments

• Use Istio Service Mesh to deliver innovative service connectivity features to internal services allowing high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades and continuous deployment

• Help create a centre of excellence for Cloud networking technologies in the Platforms organization: Ingress, Egress and Service Mesh

• Work closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with the needs of the business

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala)

• 2+ years experience with running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions)

• Experience with a public cloud platform: AWS, GCP

• Must be a US Citizen

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

Primary Location: USA.CO.Boulder

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $106,400 USD - $159,600 USD

 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $101,100 USD - $180,000 USD

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $106,400 - $159,600 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

03/18/2025

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