Workday

Software Development Engineer - AI Infrastructure Development Platform

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Vancouver, Canada or Boulder, CO, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$124k - $222k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain services and tooling for AI-agent deployment, testing, and lifecycle management within development and CI/CD workflows.
  • Develop systems for workflow coordination, state management, tool integration, and multi-step processing.
  • Write maintainable Python code for platform capabilities and APIs.
  • Deploy and operate reliable, scalable services on Kubernetes.
  • Build observability, logging, tracing, debugging, performance, fault-tolerance, and internal developer-experience capabilities.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI teams on production-ready solutions, system architecture, and technical decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software development experience building backend systems or services.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages such as Go or Java.
  • Experience designing and building distributed systems and scalable services.
  • Experience running and operating services in Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Familiarity with machine learning or LLM-powered applications, agent-based systems, workflow orchestration, and their production deployment and operational tooling.
  • Experience designing systems for reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and debugging distributed workflows.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, asynchronous processing, and service-oriented architecture.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with platforms, infrastructure, developer tooling, cloud platforms, modern deployment practices, model serving, vector databases, or evaluation frameworks in an MLOps context.
  • Experience with LLM application patterns such as tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation, context and memory management, or multi-step workflows.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, drive projects end-to-end, and collaborate effectively.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work arrangement requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or field, with remote home-office options.
  • Potential eligibility for the Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits are available; the application deadline is November 13, 2026.
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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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