Senior AI Platform Engineer – Backend & Pipelines

Engg

Colorado

On-site

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Job summary

Workday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Senior Software Development Engineer on the AI Foundations team will design, build, and operate software that hosts and scales AI-powered applications across Workday products.

You will collaborate with machine learning engineers to deliver production-grade backend services powering AI-driven capabilities and agent apps.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with Python development.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core services and infrastructure for AI development, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Own a significant surface area end to end, including production health and on‑call.
  • Turn open‑ended problems into scoped, sequenced work for yourself and others.
  • Raise the bar through design and code review, and mentor engineers on the team.
  • Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams on tradeoffs and roadmap.

Skills

Python
Distributed systems
APIs
Cloud platforms
Kubernetes
ETL with PySpark
Unix/Linux
On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
GCP

Job description

Workday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Senior Software Development Engineer on the AI Foundations team will design, build, and operate software that hosts and scales AI-powered applications across Workday products.

You will collaborate with machine learning engineers to deliver production-grade backend services powering AI-driven capabilities and agent apps.

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