Software Development Engineer - DevOps - Security

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Workday is paving the road forward with how we build, package, deploy, and secure key management for Workday services and our customers! On our Security Platform team we’re using the latest technologies to build platforms and services to support our growth while also ensuring the protection of Workday data and infrastructure is paramount. As a part of this team, you will help build and support enterprise grade security tools and services for platform security initiatives. Are you passionate about keeping millions of customers’ data safe? Do you want to help secure application services by implementing key management solutions at scale? Workday’s Security Platform team is dedicated to providing the Security solution for our customers. We are working on one of the top priorities for Workday with strong customer demand.

This role’s charter is to develop, build, deploy, and support platform security specific solutions and infrastructure to help protect Workday customers data. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated potential to work in a production focused diverse organization. You will be working in a rapidly moving microservices environment where resilience and scalability are key non-functional requirements. This will require you to work efficiently within your own team but also to coordinate with others in teams both locally and in other timezones. Also this role will require the operation and maintenance of our critical production system as well as building massively scalable digital security systems as part of that is core to all Workday services.

Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience). 5+ years developing and handling enterprise scale systems 1+ year experience automating infrastructure in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, Ruby, Java 1+ year experience running databases (SQL and NoSQL) Understanding of the internet protocols TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL/TLS etc Proficiency in Linux (or other Unix variant) and container technologies Other qualifications Knowledge and experience working with cryptographic, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) or key management systems such as Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) Experience with public cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure) Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews, source control management, and operations Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to a wide variety of audiences Excellent problem solving skills Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only) Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and