Workday

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform (Agent Cell)

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6 days ago
Atlanta, GA, USA +2 moreMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core runtime services for secure, isolated agent execution.
  • Implement policy-aware pathways for data, context, tool, and model access.
  • Develop interfaces and contracts between maincar, sidecar, runtime, and partner systems.
  • Improve performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability for high-concurrency workloads.
  • Build telemetry, logging, observability, and audit-trace capabilities.
  • Partner with engineering and platform teams on data preparation, context assembly, tool gating, and model mediation.
  • Write testable code and participate in design and architecture reviews.
  • Support production operations, incident response, performance tuning, and operational hardening.
  • Own complex technical projects from design through production and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • Software Engineer candidates must have 5+ years of software development engineering experience designing, developing, and deploying software solutions.
  • Senior Software Engineer candidates must have 8+ years of software development engineering experience architecting, building, and scaling robust and efficient software systems.
  • Senior Software Engineer candidates must have 6+ years of software engineering experience with platform systems.
  • Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architecture is required.
  • Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language such as Python, Rust, Java, or Go is required.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is required.
  • Experience with secure systems, least-privilege patterns, policy controls, production services, reliability, and observability is required.
  • Demonstrated ownership of complex technical projects and strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills are required.

Benefits

  • Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field, with remote home-office options and opportunities to gather in company offices.
  • May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Workday provides comprehensive benefits and reasonable accommodations during the application process.
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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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