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Senior Software Development Engineer - AI Core

Senior Software Development Engineer - AI Core

Canada Workday ULC • Vancouver, BC, Canada
6 days ago
Salary
CA$140,000.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About the Role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the AI Core team, you will be primarily responsible for designing, building, and operating the software systems that host, run, and scale AI-powered agentic applications at Workday. You will build the agentic tooling for both unstructured and structured information retrieval across Workday’s vast, rich and inclusive datasets.

Specifically, you will:

  • Design and implement production-grade services,APIs, and ETL pipelines in the ML RAG platform, which is consumed by numerous AI-driven Workday products and high-priority agents

  • Apply distributed systems principles in production to address scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance challenges

  • Automate CI/CD and testing workflows, and proactively look for ways to improve developer experience

  • Ensure systems meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, robustness, and compliance

  • Own services through their full lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and ongoing operational improvements

About You

You are a strong technical leader with deep Python expertise and solid software engineering skills, capable of writing well-designed code and delivering solutions efficiently.

Basic Qualification:

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience, including architecting, building, and scaling secure, robust, and efficient software systems

  • 5+ years of experience with Python development

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Other Qualifications:

  • Understanding of object-oriented design principles. Proficiency with advanced Python concepts such as asynchronous and concurrent programming, generators, higher-order abstractions, Pydantic and Pyspark.

  • Preferred prior experience with building scalable services and pipelines for ML use cases in Production

  • Deep systems knowledge, including comfort operating in and debugging Unix/Linux environments, fluency with command-line tooling, and understanding of practical networking fundamentals

  • Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance tradeoffs

  • Proficiency with cloud and container platforms, including containerized workloads and orchestration systems (e.g., AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)

  • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, working closely with other engineers while maintaining independent execution

  • Ownership mindset, able to take responsibility for a work area and deliver high-quality, reliable systems

  • Ability to mentor and coach other engineers, promoting best practices and raising the engineering bar

  • Architectural thinking skills, with the ability to contribute meaningful ideas and practical solutions in design and architecture discussions

  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders


Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location: CAN.BC.VancouverPrimary CAN Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $210,000 CADAdditional CAN Location(s) Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $210,000 CAD
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