AI Platform Backend Engineer

Workday; United States; Sur place; USD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Workday is seeking Software Development Engineers to build the AI Infrastructure Development Platform, enabling teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI agents in production. You will design and implement backend services, systems, and tooling to support the SDLC for AI applications across distributed systems and Kubernetes-based environments.

This role focuses on reliability, scalability, and developer experience, with collaboration across AI, product, and engineering teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 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, especially related to their deployment and operational tooling.
• 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.

Responsabilités

• Build and maintain services and tooling that support agent deployment, testing, and lifecycle management within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Develop systems for workflow coordination, state management, and tool integration in the context of development and operations.
• 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 in development and production.
• 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 and development infrastructure.
• Participate in design discussions and contribute to system architecture and technical decisions.

Connaissances

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

APIs

Backend development

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS

Outils

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

Logging/Observability

Description du poste

Workday is seeking Software Development Engineers to build the AI Infrastructure Development Platform, enabling teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI agents in production. You will design and implement backend services, systems, and tooling to support the SDLC for AI applications across distributed systems and Kubernetes-based environments.

This role focuses on reliability, scalability, and developer experience, with collaboration across AI, product, and engineering teams to deliver