Workday

Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer – AI Platform

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4 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect and maintain internal editor configurations, system prompts, and custom extensions for Cursor and VS Code.
  • Develop local CLI utilities, linters, and pre-commit hooks for schema, formatting, and syntax validation.
  • Track developer friction, template adoption, and first-pass build success to improve publishing workflows.
  • Build function-calling abstractions, REST API wrappers, and Python and TypeScript skill libraries.
  • Design and distribute MCP and JSON-RPC templates, boilerplate generators, and SDK tooling.
  • Build codebase indexing, RAG, and context-ingestion pipelines that provide AI editors with current documentation and API specifications.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building developer tools, internal platform infrastructure, CLI utilities, or IDE extensions in Python or TypeScript.
  • 2+ years designing developer platforms, SDKs, or developer experience infrastructure.
  • 1+ year of hands-on experience optimizing AI-assisted development workflows using tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or custom LLM coding extensions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience writing .cursorrules, system prompts, or context-injection pipelines for AI code editors.
  • Strong knowledge of JSON Schema, Pydantic, OpenAPI, and API contracts.
  • Familiarity with Model Context Protocol, tool-calling specifications, or agent execution harnesses.
  • Strong developer-ergonomics, API-design, CLI-interface, technical documentation, and technical-writing skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office flexibility.
  • Ireland base salary range of €86,400–€129,600, plus potential bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support.

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About Workday

10,000+ employees

Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.

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