Senior Software Development Engineer

Workday, Inc. is an on-demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor.

Part of a development team responsible for deployment automation of the Workday infrastructure and application stack.

• You will make heavy use of Chef (from Opscode) for configuration management to deliver the solution

• On-going collaboration with multiple development teams across the Workday organization.

• Follow a production development lifecycle process including specifications, development, test and production rollout.

• 5+ year’s development experience

• Development experience with Python or Ruby

• Knowledge of at least two programming languages

• Experience with test frameworks for your language of choice, TDD/BDD a plus

• Experience leading features & design through implementation & support phases

• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working within an agile development process.

• Solid experience at the system level with Linux.

• Configuration management experience (chef, puppet, cfengine)

• Experience with distributed systems at a large scale

• An understanding of software / release life cycle

• Experience designing and building REST based APIs

• BS Technical degree or equivalent experience