Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday, Inc.

Compensation · Listed in posting

€86,400 – €129,600/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Dublin
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 25, 2026

Description

Workday is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer for its Danu AI Centre of Excellence in Dublin to build and operate production anonymization services, pipelines, APIs, SDKs, and interfaces. The role combines backend and machine-learning platform engineering, including differential privacy, group anonymization, synthetic data, Spark and AWS data processing, GPU model serving, and production reliability. It requires 8+ years of professional software development experience, strong Python or comparable systems programming, distributed data and cloud experience, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. The position offers a flexible hybrid arrangement requiring at least 50% office or field time each quarter and a base pay range of €86,400 to €129,600 per year in Ireland.

Required Skills

Python
REST/gRPC APIs
Spark
AWS
Differential Privacy
Group Anonymization
CI/CD
PyTorch

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of professional software development engineering experience architecting, building, and scaling robust backend or data-intensive systems.
Experience with object-oriented design, software architecture, and production REST/gRPC APIs, SDKs, and distributed microservices.
Experience operating large-scale distributed data processing at enterprise volume, including Spark profiling and optimization.
Hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and maintaining production systems on AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
Knowledge of testing methodologies, automated frameworks, and CI/CD practices.
Preferred Qualifications: Practical experience or research background in de-identification, group anonymization, differential privacy, or synthetic data generation.
Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, transformer architectures, NER, LLM fine-tuning, and GPU model inference optimization.
Exposure to agent execution, orchestration, or LLM evaluation frameworks.
Understanding of Responsible AI practices and privacy regulatory frameworks such as GDPR.
Experience collaborating with external research partners or consultancies.
Translation Company Name: Workday Limited