Senior Software Development Engineer

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +1

Workday is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their Agent Factory team. This role will focus on building user-facing and platform experiences for AI agents embedded in HR and Financial workflows. The engineer will own full-stack solutions from development through production, collaborating with ML engineers and product managers to turn AI technology into usable products at scale. The role emphasizes building production-grade AI systems and operating them responsibly within Workday's platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and deliver full stack features that power AI agents embedded in HR and Financial workflows
  2. Own services and experiences from development through production—you build it, you run it
  3. Collaborate in an iterative, team-first environment that values strong engineering practices and continuous learning
  4. Share knowledge, mentor teammates, and help raise the technical bar across the pod

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • 5+ years experience with a web development framework (Python preferred: Flask, Django, or FastAPI)
  • 5+ years with a Relational DB (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Experience building and operating SaaS products in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
  • Familiarity with the tradeoffs and architecture of modern distributed systems
  • Knowledge of software development best practices (DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability)
  • Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice to have

  • Exposure to additional programming languages like Java (backend) and TypeScript (frontend/fullstack) is a plus
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch

What the JD emphasized

  • production-grade AI
  • deeply embedded into Workday’s platform
  • not research experiments or maintenance work
  • own problems end to end

Other signals

  • production-grade AI
  • deeply embedded into Workday’s platform
  • own problems end to end
  • AI agents used by millions of people every day