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Golang Engineer

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About the Role

In this role you would be joining a small team of software development engineers and leaders to support deployment automation of the infrastructure and application stack in a large product development organization. We focus on being fast and agile, while delivering insights and guidance which have broad impact and clear value to the teams we support. We are looking for a motivated development engineer to help us enable more teams to deploy and configure phenomenal products.

As a key member of this team you can expect to use or grow experience in the following areas:

• Developing internal tools, written in Go, to support service team development and operations activities.
• Collaborating multi-functionally with Workday development, operations, and product teams to understand their priorities while influencing optimal use of the development tools, processes, and systems.
• Delivering high quality software products within a full development lifecycle.
• Opportunity to author configuration management scripts and deployment tools such as Chef and Jenkins
• Leveraging analytics tools such as Splunk, Grafana, as well as ruby code and libraries.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Development experience with Go.
• Experience leading features & design through implementation & support phases
• Ability to adapt to the new technologies and learn quickly
• Working experience in an Agile environment and deep familiarity with agile development processes.
• Solid understanding and experience at the system level with Linux.

Other Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, building positive relationships with partners internal and external to the organization.
• Experience with a deployment automation / configuration management tool (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), preferably Chef, a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems at a large scale.
• Experience with Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Python, Gradle, Groovy, Artifactory, GCP, and/or Ansible.
• Experience of full life-cycle software engineering practices including coding standards, testing, code reviews, source control management, and operations.
• Experience designing and building REST based APIs.
• BS Technical degree or equivalent work experience.