Senior Backend Platform Engineer

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Tel Aviv, Israel

Senior Backend Platform Engineer responsible for building and maintaining core backend systems, APIs, and libraries to enhance platform functionality, architecture, and scalability. The role focuses on improving developer experience by standardizing tooling, managing configuration, and optimizing cloud infrastructure. A key aspect is integrating, governing, and scaling AI capabilities and automated workflows into developer pipelines to increase engineering velocity, including leveraging AI coding assistants.

What you'd actually do

  1. Improve Developer Experience
  2. Backend Development
  3. Standardize Tooling
  4. Configuration Management
  5. Collaborate & Optimize
  6. AI-Assisted Developer Tooling

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • designing and building complex, large-scale systems
  • microservices architectures
  • high-concurrency cloud applications
  • cloud-native environments (AWS preferred)
  • Kubernetes
  • modern CI/CD pipelines
  • AI coding assistants

Nice to have

  • Go
  • Java
  • Nodejs
  • FastAPI
  • Celery
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • onboarding, mentoring, and acting as a technical force multiplier

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-Assisted Developer Tooling
  • integrate, govern, and scale modern AI capabilities
  • maximize engineering velocity
  • High efficiency in leveraging AI coding assistants

Other signals

  • AI-assisted developer tooling
  • integrate, govern, and scale modern AI capabilities
  • maximize engineering velocity
  • High efficiency in leveraging AI coding assistants