Senior Backend Platform Engineer

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 HiredScore is the newest addition to the Workday family! HiredScore provides deeply integrated AI solutions to F500 recruiting, sourcing, DE&I, and talent management teams. We focus on supercharging our clients' existing tech stack rather than adding and/or replacing. Core AI products include compliant and bias-free candidate scoring for active applicants and automated sourcing of passive candidates from existing ATS, CRM, HCM, VMS and other internal systems. HiredScore also offers a first-of-its-kind Diversity AI Module that is on the forefront of innovation in the DE&I technology category. A fully customized offering that provides numerous products as part of the solution suite enabling enterprise organizations to truly move the needle on their organizational diversity goals. We place great value on career growth, learning and collaboration. Employees are our #1 value! We are an agile organization, constantly looking for ways to improve with a focus on the value we deliver to our customers. We work closely with people to acquire fast feedback and achieve the right outcomes. At our Tel Aviv site, we follow a hybrid work model with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home. About the Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Platform Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in improving developer experience by building and maintaining core backend systems that enhance our platform's functionality, architecture, and scalability. You will develop essential tools, templates, APIs, and libraries that empower our product development teams to build robust, multi-tenant SaaS applications efficiently. As part of a central team, you will collaborate across all our development teams, providing technical and architectural guidance to ensure best practices and alignment with our platform vision. This role offers exposure to diverse technologies and the opportunity to work with engineers specializing in backend development, data engineering, and infrastructure. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will: Improve Developer Experience: Continuously optimize the tools, processes, and workflows that our product teams use to build, test, and deploy applications. Backend Development: Design and develop core backend systems and APIs using Python and other modern asynchronous backend technologies. Standardize Tooling: Create and maintain repository skeletons and shared internal libraries to promote code reuse and consistency across teams. Configuration Management: Implement robust systems for managing account settings in our multi-tenant environments, ensuring strict data isolation and security. Collaborate & Optimize: Partner with Data, DevOps, and product teams to identify performance bottlenecks and architect scalable cloud infrastructure solutions. AI-Assisted Developer Tooling: Integrate, govern, and scale modern AI capabilities and automated workflows into our core developer pipelines to maximize engineering velocity. About You Basic Qualifications 6+ years of professional backend experience, with a focus on Python (experience in Go/Java/Nodejs is highly valued). A proven track record of designing and building complex, large-scale systems, microservices architectures, and high-concurrency cloud applications. Strong experience working within cloud-native environments (AWS preferred) and deep familiarity with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines. High efficiency in leveraging AI coding assistants to accelerate the development lifecycle. Self-driven with the ability to navigate ambiguity, architect long-lasting solution patterns, and partner effectively with cross-functional engineering teams. ​Other Qualifications Hands-on experience with modern asynchronous frameworks like FastAPI and task queues like Celery, Kafka, or RabbitMQ. Experience with Infrastructure as Code. Demonstrated experience onboarding, mentoring, and acting as a technical force multiplier for fellow developers Our Approach to Flexible Work With Hybrid 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 we require employees to work three days a week in the office and two days at home. 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. accommodations@workday.com. Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process! At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security. Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not. In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.