Software Development Engineer - Kubernetes Service Mesh

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In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Workday currently has a position open for a Software Developer: Kubernetes Mesh Networking in Cloud Platform Engineering.

To support Workday’s rapid growth, this team is building a state-of-the-art multi-cloud platform to host thousands of customers seamlessly across public and private clouds. We are looking for an experienced engineer to help develop and deploy service communication technologies to support existing and future networking needs for cloud native microservices and legacy services migrating to cloud. Resilience and scalability are the top priorities for our platform and this role will involve maximising the available solutions through thoughtful design, deployment and configuration, in addition to open source community participation and working closely with internal customers to understand their services.

The team operates as a software product team, using Scrum and DevOps practices to deliver the software solutions needed by our customers for seamless deployment to a true multi-cloud platform. Our challenge is to meet the complex service connectivity, performance and security needs of our services, in a repeatable and predictable manner across our platform. To deliver these requirements at scale, with industry leading uptime and while minimising onboarding and operational friction.

The core technologies used by the Service Communication team today include Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy. If you are passionate about cloud-native communication solutions and would like to play a key role in developing Workday's leading cloud-hosted architecture, we’d love to hear from you! About the Role You will have an opportunity to: * Develop a deep understanding of Workday’s industry leading products and work with talented internal engineering teams to help them deploy 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 allowing high availability, rapid prototyping, hitless upgrades and continuous deployment * Help create a centre of excellence for Cloud networking technologies in the Platforms organisation: Ingress, Egress and Service Mesh * Work closely with infrastructure and vendor teams to align the networking design at all layers with the needs of the business About You Software Development Engineer Basic Qualifications * 3+ years 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 Basic Qualifications * 5+ years 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 with running server orchestration solutions in production (Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm, or other solutions) * Experience designing and building a microservice architecture * Deep knowledge of and experience with Linux * Familiar with Service mesh technologies, ideally Istio / Envoy * Ability to communicate effectively to different customers (product management, team mates, external teams using our platform) * Experience working in an Agile environment/ with Agile development methodologies * Experience developing automation solutions * Experience with a public cloud platform: AWS, GCP, Azure * Knowledge of Storage, Networking, Systems, 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 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.

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