engineering
Posted YesterdaySenior Software Engineer - Data Platform and Agent Trust
at Workday
Toronto, CanadaRemote
Requirements
- We’re 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, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Experience
- Qualifications: 6+ years of
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Additional details
- 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.
- We’re 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 you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back.
- 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.
- Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process.
- 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 you'll 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.