Sr. Software Development Engineer / Principal, Software Development Engineer

Workday
Toronto, Vancouver
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 168,000 - 252,000 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Python","Ray Serve","Prometheus","Distributed systems","CI pipelines","Kubernetes"]

Lead the AI Model Serving platform by shaping technical vision, driving design decisions for high-performance, scalable distributed systems, and guiding production ML model deployment and registry. Collaborate with software engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists to evolve the platform, improve cost governance, and explore hosting open-source LLMs in Workday’s AI stack.

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Sr. Software Development Engineer / Principal, Software Development Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the AI Model Serving platform by shaping technical vision, driving design decisions for high-performance, scalable distributed systems, and guiding production ML model deployment and registry. Collaborate with software engineers, ML engineers, and data scientists to evolve the platform, improve cost governance, and explore hosting open-source LLMs in Workday’s AI stack.
Location: Toronto, Vancouver
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Help set the product vision for the AI Model Serving platform in partnership with the engineering manager, bringing a product-oriented mindset to infrastructure decisions.
  • •Lead the team technically by making critical design decisions that drive performance, reliability, and scalability across the platform.
  • •Design, implement, and maintain large-scale systems that enable moving ML models to production.
  • •Write design documents to build consensus for new system components and enhancements to existing components.
  • •Evaluate and uptake new technologies made available within Workday and across the broader industry.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 168,000 - 252,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software development experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • •Deep experience designing, building, and scaling production-grade distributed systems
  • •Deep proficiency in Python and production-level coding
  • •Experience with Ray Serve for distributed model serving and monitoring with Prometheus
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsCloudAI
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PythonRay ServePrometheusDistributed systemsCI pipelinesKubernetes
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonRay ServePrometheusGCPAWS BedrockGeminiRayKubernetes

Company Brief

Workday
Provides cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management, financial management, payroll, and analytics. Delivers unified HR and finance software suites to large organizations, enabling workforce planning, talent management, payroll, and financial reporting.
Industry: HR Tech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Pleasanton, United States
Founded: 2005
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