Software Development Engineer, AI Platform
Job Location:
Boulder, CO - USA
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Job Summary
Your work days are brighter here.
Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
The Agent Runtime team develops Workdays secure runtime for enterprise AI agents. The platform provides deterministic policy enforcement least-privilege execution and auditable control points for trustworthy AI workflows.We build foundational runtime components and work across platform and ML partner teams to support secure execution at enterprise scale.
About the Role
- Design and provision dedicated AWS accounts (build dev runtime prod runtime) with proper account structure guardrails and compliance requirements (including FIPS) built in from day one.
- Build and own Terraform modules covering IAM roles/policies VPC and network design (subnets routing security groups egress control) and account-level guardrails so that provisioning is repeatable and reviewable rather than manual.
- Support the infrastructure behind our serverless agent execution environment provisioning and deprovisioning the runtime environments agents execute in.
- Design least-privilege IAM roles and cross-account access patterns for our gateway service and build pipeline including secure service-to-service authentication.
- Partner directly with security/compliance teams on account guardrails FIPS requirements and audit readiness this role is a primary point of contact for those conversations not a downstream consumer of someone elses decisions.
- Register and manage new accounts/services through Workdays internal account-governance process (Venice).
- Collaborate with platform engineers on open infrastructure questions service hosting model egress authentication design network topology between the gateway and downstream services and bring a strong point of view grounded in AWS best practice.
- Build monitoring and alerting for infrastructure health and participate in code/design reviews for infrastructure changes.
About You
- Deep hands-on experience authoring and maintaining Terraform (or comparable IaC tooling) for production infrastructure not just consuming existing modules.
- Strong AWS fundamentals: IAM (roles policies cross-account trust relationships) VPC design (subnets routing security groups PrivateLink/peering) and AWS account structure/Organizations.
- Experience with serverless compute (Lambda Fargate or similar) provisioning scaling and operating it in production.
- Experience standing up new AWS accounts/environments from a clean slate including navigating compliance requirements (FIPS or comparable regulatory/security standards).
- Working knowledge of security fundamentals: least-privilege access design secrets management network segmentation and secure service-to-service authentication.
- Familiarity with GitOps-style infrastructure delivery (e.g. ArgoCD Crossplane) is a plus.
- Experience integrating infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD or build/deploy pipelines.
- Ability to debug complex infrastructure and networking issues under production conditions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills this role documents infrastructure decisions that other engineers and security/compliance stakeholders depend on directly.
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.
Primary Location:Additional Considerations:
The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Seamlessly manage your people, money, and agents on an open, unified platform with AI at the core. It’s a new work day.
