Software Development Engineer

About the Team

The Operations Engineering team enables product development teams' ability to efficiently manage their services. We develop, implement, and maintain tools and platforms to build, certify, and deploy "Infrastructure As Code" used for automated deployment and configuration management. We are blending modern technology, forward-thinking engineering teams, and Workday's collaborative culture, to continuously improve these capabilities.

The successful candidate will be familiar with development pipeline tools, processes, and workflows, automated test frameworks, and will be an experienced developer using modern high-level programming languages. You will have a demonstrable ability to work with various application teams and pipeline teams. You will be working in a constantly evolving and iterative environment where resilience and scalability are key non-functional requirements. This will require you to work effectively within your own team but also to coordinate with other teams, both locally and in other time zones, to deliver creative and innovative solutions and products.

About the Role

In this role you would be joining a small team of software development engineers and leaders to support deployment automation of the infrastructure and application stack in a large product development organization. We focus on being fast and agile, while delivering insights and guidance which have broad impact and clear value to the teams we support. We are looking for a motivated development engineer to help us enable more teams to deploy and configure phenomenal products.

Responsibilities:

As a key member of this team you can expect to use or grow experience in the following areas:

• Authoring configuration management scripts and deployment tools: Chef, Jenkins, Puppet or equivalent
• Collaborating multi-functionally with development, operations, and product teams to understand their priorities while influencing optimal use of the development tools, processes, and systems.
• Delivering high quality software products within a full development lifecycle.
• Leveraging analytics tools such as Splunk, Grafana, as well as ruby code and libraries.

Requirements:

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of software development experience.
• Proficiency with at least one deployment automation / configuration management tool (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), preferably Chef.
• Development experience with Ruby.
• Experience leading features & design through implementation & support phases
• Ability to adapt to the new technologies and learn quickly
• Working experience in an Agile environment and deep familiarity with agile development processes.
• Solid understanding and experience at the system level with Linux.

Other Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, building positive relationships with partners internal and external to the organization
• Experience with test frameworks, TDD/BDD a plus
• Experience with distributed systems at a large scale
• Experience with Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Python, Gradle, Groovy, Artifactory, GCP, and Ansible.
• Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews, source control management, and operations
• Experience designing and building REST based APIs
• BS Technical degree or equivalent work experience

Compensation:

• $67.24/hour - $89.66/hour (W2)