About the Company
Workday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We’re shaped by integrity, empathy, and collaboration, and we strive to make hard work pay off for our people, customers, and the wider world.
About the Team
The Software Developer: Kubernetes Mesh Networking role is part of the Cloud Platform Engineering team, which builds a state‑of‑the‑art multi‑cloud platform to host customers across public and private clouds. The team follows Scrum and DevOps practices to deliver solutions that enable seamless deployment across our platform.
About the Role
Develop deep understanding of Workday’s products and collaborate with internal engineering teams to deploy them 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, enabling high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades, and continuous deployment.
Create a centre of excellence for cloud networking technologies within the Platforms organization, covering ingress, egress, and service mesh.
Collaborate closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with business needs.
Basic Qualifications
Software Development Engineer
3+ years of experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala).
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Senior Software Development Engineer
5+ years of experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Ruby, Python, Java 8+, or Scala).
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Other Qualifications
Experience running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or similar).
Experience designing and building a microservice architecture.
Deep knowledge of and experience with Linux.
Familiarity with service‑mesh technologies, ideally Istio/Envoy.
Strong communication skills for diverse stakeholders.
Experience in an Agile environment or with Agile methodologies.
Experience developing automation solutions.
Experience with a public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Knowledge of storage, networking, systems, and configuration management.
Knowledge of standard methodologies for cloud‑native infrastructure management and operations.
Knowledge of CI/CD principles and standard processes.
Our Approach to Flexible Work
We blend in‑person and remote work. Teams are expected to spend at least 50% of their time each quarter in the office, field, or with customers. Remote employees can schedule flexible hours while ensuring collaboration and shared commitment to team goals.
EEO & Accessibility Statement
We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation, please email accommodations@workday.com. Workday will never ask candidates to apply through unverified sites or pay any fees to apply.
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