Senior Software Engineer – AI Privacy & De-identification

Workday, Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 86,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Dublin, Ireland is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Danu team in the AI Centre of Excellence. You will build and operate high-volume anonymization services, frameworks, and APIs, collaborating with ML engineers to productionize differential privacy techniques.

The role emphasizes scalable backend systems, data pipelines on Spark/EMR/SageMaker, and robust CI/CD practices. You will mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence across the team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with backend or data-intensive systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python; knowledge of Java/Scala/Go is a plus.
• Experience designing production REST/gRPC APIs, SDKs, and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Build REST/gRPC APIs, Python SDKs, and CLI surfaces for anonymized data access.
• Design, deploy, and operate high-throughput anonymization pipelines on Spark/EMR/SageMaker.
• Implement differential privacy, group anonymization, and synthetic data tooling.
• Own production-grade ML system support, including GPU provisioning and model inference efficiency.
• Mentor engineers, enforce testing and CI/CD practices, and contribute to architectural docs.

Skills

Python

Java/Scala/Go

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Spark

AWS

Testing (PyTest/JUnit)

CI/CD

OO Design

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

SageMaker

Hugging Face

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Dublin, Ireland is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Danu team in the AI Centre of Excellence. You will build and operate high-volume anonymization services, frameworks, and APIs, collaborating with ML engineers to productionize differential privacy techniques.

The role emphasizes scalable backend systems, data pipelines on Spark/EMR/SageMaker, and robust CI/CD practices. You will mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence across the team.