Sr Software Development Engineer for AI

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About the Team

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 applications at Workday. Specifically you will:

• Design and implement production-grade services APIs and ETL pipelines that are consumed by AI-driven Workday products and platforms

• 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 proven experience with Python development

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related discipline or equivalent practical experience

Technical Skills:

• 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)

Leadership and Communication Skills:

• 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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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