Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer - AI Platform

Workday, Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. seeks a Senior DevEx Engineer to own developer productivity and authoring tooling across our enterprise AI Skills platform.

You will build the internal developer platform (IDP), IDE tooling, and context-ingestion architecture that enables engineers and domain experts to craft high-quality, schema-compliant AI skills effortlessly. You will bridge AI coding assistants and enterprise platform standards—optimizing workflows, curating editor rules, and creating starter templates to

Qualifications

• 4+ years building developer tools, internal platforms, CLI utilities, or IDE extensions in Python or TypeScript.
• 2+ years designing developer platforms, SDKs, or DevEx infrastructure.
• 1+ years optimizing AI-assisted development workflows with tools like Cursor or Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain internal editor configurations (Cursor, VS Code) with .cursorrules and extensions.
• Develop local CLI utilities, linters, and pre-commit hooks for schema correctness.
• Track developer friction and adoption to speed up publishing of new skills.
• Wrap enterprise REST APIs into MCP schemas and maintain standard libraries.
• Design templates and SDKs for MCP tool schemas and JSON-RPC contracts.
• Build context-ingestion pipelines and documentation access for editors.

Skills

DevEx engineering

Python

TypeScript

SDKs

Developer platforms

AI-assisted development

Cursor

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Cursor

VS Code

CLI utilities

linters

pre-commit hooks

Job description

Your work days are brighter here.

We're obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we're shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you'll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We're in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun‑drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you'll do meaningful work with Workmates who've got your back. In return, we'll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you've found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Forward Intelligence team owns the skills that power Workday's agent platform responsible for customer onboarding through the full post‑deployment lifecycle - turning the deep configuration expertise and hard‑earned wisdom of our Domain Experts and Deployment Consultants into production‑grade, fully tested skills that the agent can execute unattended in live customer tenants.

What we own: The end‑to‑end skill engine and governance ecosystem, spanning skill knowledge extraction, promotion pipelines, evaluation frameworks, self‑correcting drift detection, developer authoring environments, and customer onboarding and lifecycle management

How we build: Developer‑first authoring environments and automated platform tooling that enable engineers to rapidly craft, test, and publish deterministic skills with built‑in guardrails.

Agentic engineering: We build IDE tooling, prompt templates, .cursorrules configurations, and context‑ingestion pipelines that allow AI‑assisted editors (like Cursor) to natively generate compliant Model Context Protocol (MCP) schemas on the first try.

How we work: Close end‑to‑end collaboration across domain experts, AI platform engineers, and site reliability teams to transform domain knowledge into trustworthy, production‑ready AI skills.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior DevEx Engineer to own developer productivity and authoring tooling across our enterprise AI Skills platform. In this role, you will build the internal developer platform (IDP), IDE tooling, and context‑ingestion architecture that enables engineers and domain experts to build high‑quality, schema‑compliant AI skills effortlessly.

You will bridge the gap between AI coding assistants and enterprise platform standards - optimizing developer workflows, curating AI editor rules, and creating starter templates to ensure code natively adheres to Model Context Protocol (MCP) standards before entering CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Developer Environment & IDE Curation: Architect and maintain internal editor configurations (e.g., Cursor, VS Code) using .cursorrules, system prompts, and custom extensions to streamline AI skill authoring.
• Local CLI & Validation Tooling: Develop local CLI utilities, linters, and pre‑commit hooks that give developers instant feedback on schema correctness, formatting, and syntax before pushing code.
• Developer Productivity Metrics: Track developer friction, template adoption, and first‑pass build success rates to continuously reduce time‑to‑publish for new skills.
• Tool Orchestration & Abstraction: Experience building function‑calling abstractions, wrapping existing enterprise REST APIs into MCP schemas, and maintaining standard Python/TypeScript skill libraries.
• MCP Templates & SDK Tooling: Design and distribute standard templates, boilerplate generators, and SDKs for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool schemas and JSON‑RPC skill contracts.
• Context Ingestion & Retrieval Pipelines: Build local codebase indexing, RAG, and context‑ingestion pipelines that supply AI editors with accurate, real‑time platform documentation and API specifications.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 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 (DevEx) infrastructure.
• 1+ years of hands‑on experience optimizing AI‑assisted development workflows (e.g., 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.

Other Qualifications

• AI Coding Workflows & Rules: Hands‑on experience writing .cursorrules, system prompts, or context‑injection