Sr Software Development Engineer - Core Platform Integration

Requirements

• We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.
• Workday has acquired several companies in the last couple of years that run multiple services across cloud service providers AWS and GCP with their own infrastructure patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and operational practices.
• About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll be one of the hands-on technical engineers working closely with acquired company engineering teams to plan, implement, and execute their migration to CP2.
• You will partner with engineering leads at 2–3 assigned acquired companies to inventory their services, dependencies, and CSP-specific footprint (managed DBs, IAM, networking, queues, secrets, observability stack, etc.).
• You will be an active participant in Architecture Review Boards, separating hard blockers (re-architecture required) from soft blockers (tool swaps), and help drive consensus across IPE and acquisition teams.
• You will need to be adept at communicating effectively and building strong relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.
• About You You're a senior engineer who has done cloud migration work before, not just designed it on a whiteboard.
• Basic Qualification 7+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 3 years operating production workloads on AWS and/or GCP.
• Proficiency in using the latest AI tools ( Claude Code, Cursor, Augment ) as a force multiplier to accelerate code understanding, migration work, and documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Other Qualification Strong, current Kubernetes
• experience (EKS, GKE, or equivalent).
• Production proficiency in Terraform (Terragrunt a plus) as your primary IaC tool, and
• experience refactoring IaC across accounts/projects/regions. Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python for automation, migration tooling, and operators, not just glue scripts. Solid CI/CD
• experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, or Harness) and comfort redesigning pipelines, not just maintaining them.
• Working knowledge of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Operations Suite, or equivalents) and what good SLI/SLO instrumentation looks like. Practical