Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform and Agent Trust

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In return, we’ll 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, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Datahub is an AI/MLOps centered Data engineering team and our goal is to ingest, compute, and surface data driving key Workday applications across the company.

About the Role In this role, you will contribute to a cloud ops platform that enables ingestion of data from internal and external producers, computes and aggregate meaningful, curated data sets, the surfaces these sets to Workday Front-End components or as embedded contextual data for AI/ML inference generation and agentic workflows. We utilize technologies like Kubernetes, Spark, Python, Java, XO, Terraform, Kubernetes, Iceberg, EMR, and Sagemaker. About You Basic Qualifications: 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems or a related field 3+ years proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Java, Scala, Python 3+ years in cloud engineering or related field(s) Working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS, GCP) Experience with at least one of these data engineering technologies: Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Kubernetes, Terraform AWS Cloud Infrastructure Other Qualifications: BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience Experience in delivering a service from writing code to deploying in production: continuous integration (Jenkins), virtualisation (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, Terraform) Experience utilizing AI-Code Generation tools such as ClaudeCode, Windsurf, Cursor etc Experience creating scalable service endpoints to retrieve data Track record of working with logging, monitoring, metrics, stats technologies, such as: Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Hive, etc Proficient collaborating with teammates to design, maintain and improve sophisticated object-oriented software following clean code standard methodology; A testing/quality approach - unit, system/integration and end-to-end testing, TDD, feature toggles, and canary deployments Exposure to operating system concepts covering memory and storage, threading and concurrency, networking and sockets, and process management An understanding and experience with topics related to performance and scale, security, availability, deployment and operations Experience being responsible for a service in production with experience of production triage and on-call Workday Pay Transparency Statement 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 click here . Primary Location: CAN.ON.Toronto Primary Location Base Pay Range: $140,000 CAD - $210,000 CAD Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $210,000 CAD Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re 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.

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