Workday
Sr. Software Development Engineer
$148K–$264K
USA, CO, Boulder +1 · Flex · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- USA, CO, Boulder
Canada, BC, Vancouver - Experience
- 6+ years of related work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Leads technical design and development of Workday’s AI model-serving platform, scaling production services for traditional ML models and LLMs.
What you'll do
- Lead design decisions and build, maintain, and scale distributed systems for serving ML models in production.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and CI pipelines.
- Review code, write design documents and documentation, and collaborate with and mentor partner teams.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of related software development experience focused on large-scale distributed systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Deep proficiency in Python and hands-on experience deploying and scaling workloads on Kubernetes, including GPU resource management.
- Experience designing production-grade distributed systems; familiarity with serving and monitoring LLMs and traditional ML models.
Pay
$156,000 USD - $234,000 USD annualized base salary; $148,200 USD - $264,000 USD annualized base salary
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, GPU, vLLM, TGI, Ray Serve, GCP, AWS Bedrock
AI focus
Build and operate infrastructure that serves traditional ML models and LLMs, including hosting and tuning open-weight LLMs, GPU resource optimization, and scaling AI agents.
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