Senior Software Engineer, Workday
Agent Platform
CA$132.8-199.2k
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$132.8-199.2k
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
- A generalist/backend Senior Software Development Engineer who wants to work on the underlying frameworks and libraries used to build LLM agents at Workday. No ML experience required
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering in a modern programming language such as, but not limited to: Typescript, Rust, Go, Python, etc
- Experience with LLM Agent frameworks such as Langgraph
- Experience with LLM Agent Protocols such as MCP and A2A
- Experience with OAuth authentication schemes
What the job involves
- Workday’s Agent Platform team is building and maintaining the frameworks, libraries, and patterns that hundreds of Workday developers use to build LLM Agents which interact with Workday’s systems
- A large part of the team’s responsibilities is understanding the complicated networking and authentication flows for agent communication and tool call execution as they wend their way through Workday’s infrastructure
- With so many internal developers building atop the platform, we need to have a critical eye for Developer Experience, making agent iteration quick and easy
- With a focus on internal developers, we also contribute to the third-party developer experience, for external partners building agents on top of Workday, or integrating with Workday’s various agent offerings
- This is a fun space, the industry changes rapidly and there are no standards. It’s the Wild West and we’re here to figure out what makes sense and build it!
- Build and Maintain frameworks and services which support the delivery of Workday Agents
- Identify pain-points in the Developer Experience, both internal and external, propose and implement solutions
- Improve CI/CD and testing workflows and pipelines
- Build tools for interacting with development environments
- Architect new, and simplify old authentication schemes for agents
- Integrate the agent platform with legacy systems
- Improve agent observability, debugging, test frameworks
- Documentation!
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.
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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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