AI Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Workday, Inc.; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer to help build the AI Infrastructure Development Platform. You will design and implement backend services and tooling to enable AI agents in production, focusing on SDLC support and developer experience.

You will deploy on Kubernetes, ensure reliability, and collaborate with AI teams to deliver production-ready workflows while enhancing observability and performance across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience building backend systems or services.
• Strong proficiency in Python (or Go/Java).
• Experience designing distributed systems and scalable services.
• Experience running services in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Familiarity with ML or LLM-powered applications in production.
• Experience designing systems focused on reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and tooling to support the AI infrastructure platform.
• Design workflow coordination and state management systems.
• Write high-quality Python code powering platform capabilities and APIs.
• Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes for reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to observability, logging, tracing, and debugging of distributed workflows.
• Improve system performance across latency and throughput.
• Build internal tools and APIs to improve developer experience.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI teams to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Participate in design discussions and influence system architecture.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

APIs

Asynchronous processing

ML familiarity

Code quality

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Workday, Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer to help build the AI Infrastructure Development Platform. You will design and implement backend services and tooling to enable AI agents in production, focusing on SDLC support and developer experience.

You will deploy on Kubernetes, ensure reliability, and collaborate with AI teams to deliver production-ready workflows while enhancing observability and performance across the platform.