Software Development Engineer, SRE (US Federal)

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About the Team The Productivity Technologies team within Workday builds and operates products and services ranging from email and messaging services to sophisticated spreadsheets and print integrations to video streaming services, among many others.

We work across the full stack at Workday, from frontend to backend, applying both public cloud and other 3rd-party integrations.

This range of products and technologies ensures there's never a dull moment! About the Role This role will handle the operations of many of our team’s services, sitting in the intersection between our development teams and our partners in infrastructure.

Your partnership with these teams will drive improvements to our architecture and operating practices with the goal of enabling the smooth operation of our services for our customers.

It will also handle on-call support for these services in conjunction with our service and infrastructure teams.

This role will be most successful when addressing a given service’s challenges with a sense of ownership, while also driving the same sense of ownership with other teams which contribute to it.

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).

About You Do you love troubleshooting complex systems? Working in partnership with others to brainstorm, identify, and complete improvements in our software and supporting systems? Basic Qualification Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 4 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Other Qualification Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.

Hands-on operational experience with large-scale distributed systems.

Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting public cloud infrastructure and applications.

Experience instrumenting applications for observability, including metrics collection, logging, and tracing.

Experience with capacity planning and performance optimization of distributed systems.

Knowledge of incident management processes and post-incident analysis.

Experience in automating operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools.

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.

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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.

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Primary Location: USA.

CO.

Boulder Primary Location Base Pay Range: $128,800 USD - $193,200 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $122,400 USD - $217,200 USD Additional Considerations: The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below: 02/06/2026 Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote.

Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).

This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.

Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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