Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, Workday
AI Platform
$140-264k
More information about location
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Posted today
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Posted today
$140-264k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 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 and the challenges of running them in production
- Experience designing systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability
- Strong understanding of APIs, asynchronous processing, and service-oriented architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade backend or platform systems
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and drive projects end-to-end
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience working on platforms, infrastructure, or developer tooling
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration or multi-step processing systems
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern deployment practices (CI/CD)
- Experience building or supporting platforms, developer infrastructure, or internal tooling
- Experience with agent-based systems, workflow orchestration, or complex multi-step pipelines
- Exposure to LLM-based applications or agent-style architectures
- Familiarity with LLM application patterns, such as: Tool integration, Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Context and memory management and/or Multi-step workflows
- Experience with observability stacks, tracing systems, and debugging distributed workflows
- Familiarity with model serving, vector databases, or evaluation frameworks
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction
What the job involves
- Do you want to build impactful, AI features and solutions that will be used by millions of end-users? We are in the AI Platform organization at Workday and we solve meaningful problems that lie at the intersection of machine learning and enterprise-scale software!
- We build advanced AI solutions that power the core Workday software by modeling user behavior and providing intelligent automation. Come join us and make it easier and balanced for millions of Workday users!
- We are looking for Software Development Engineers to help build our Agent Platform—the infrastructure that enables teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI agents in production
- In this role, you will design and implement backend services, systems, and tooling that support agent-based applications. You’ll work on problems spanning distributed systems, orchestration, and developer experience, helping teams reliably build and scale AI-powered workflows
- This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys building production systems, solving complex technical problems, and working at the intersection of backend engineering and AI
- Build and maintain backend services that support agent execution, orchestration, and lifecycle management
- Develop systems for workflow coordination, state management, and tool integration
- Write high-quality, maintainable code in Python to power platform capabilities and APIs
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, ensuring reliability and scalability
- Contribute to systems for observability, logging, tracing, and debugging of distributed workflows
- Improve system performance across latency, throughput, and fault tolerance
- Build internal tools and APIs that improve the developer experience for teams using the platform
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver production-ready solutions
- Participate in design discussions and contribute to system architecture and technical decisions
Application process
- End Date: June 5, 2026
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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