Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform

Location: Canada, BC, Vancouver, Canada, ON, Toronto

Remote Type: Flex

Time Type: Full Time

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

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. The minute you join, you’ll 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. 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. 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

Workday’s Agent Platform team is building and maintaining the frameworks, libraries, and patterns that hundreds of Workday developers use to build LLM Agents which interact with Workday’s systems. A large part of the team’s responsibilities is understanding the complicated networking and authentication flows for agent communication and tool call execution as they wend their way through Workday’s infrastructure. With so many internal developers building atop the platform, we need to have a critical eye for Developer Experience, making agent iteration quick and easy. With a focus on internal developers, we also contribute to the third-party developer experience, for external partners building agents on top of Workday, or integrating with Workday’s various agent offerings. This is a fun space, the industry changes rapidly and there are no standards. It’s the Wild West and we’re here to figure out what makes sense and build it!

About the Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and Maintain frameworks and services which support the delivery of Workday Agents.

• Identify pain-points in the Developer Experience, both internal and external, propose and implement solutions.

• Improve CI/CD and testing workflows and pipelines.

• Build tools for interacting with development environments.

• Architect new, and simplify old authentication schemes for agents.

• Integrate the agent platform with legacy systems.

• Improve agent observability, debugging, test frameworks.

• Documentation!

About You

A generalist/backend Senior Software Development Engineer who wants to work on the underlying frameworks and libraries used to build LLM agents at Workday. No ML experience required.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering in a modern programming language such as, but not limited to: Typescript, Rust, Go, Python, etc.

Other Qualifications

• Experience with LLM Agent frameworks such as Langgraph

• Experience with LLM Agent Protocols such as MCP and A2A

• Experience with OAuth authentication schemes

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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 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.BC.Vancouver

Primary CAN Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $210,000 CAD

Additional CAN Location(s) 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. 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. 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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