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# Senior Software Developer - AI Platform Engineering

- **Company:** Dayforce, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $95,100.0 - $169,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C Sharp (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Performance Tuning, Service Design, TypeScript, Web Services, Data Logging, System Availability, Large Language Models, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Build Tools, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Golang
- **Published:** May 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=90d9081ca94416b4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Web services design?, * 5-8+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in production

 * Experience integrating large language models (LLMs) into applications or services
 * Strong backend development experience (TypeScript, C#, Go or similar)
 * Experience designing RESTful or event-driven APIs
 * Hands-on experience with containerized infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes)
 * Strong understanding of secure service design and authentication patterns
 * Experience implementing observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)
 * Demonstrated ownership of features from design through production

What would make you really stand out

 * Exposure to workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or asynchronous processing
 * Familiarity with worker-based architectures or execution isolation models
 * Experience contributing to internal platforms or shared infrastructure services
 * Experience optimizing system performance and debugging distributed systems
 * Experience working with globally distributed teams, * Is highly hands-on and comfortable working deep in the stack
 * Writes clean, maintainable, well-tested code
 * Thinks critically about system reliability and performance
 * Collaborates effectively across teams
 * Seeks to continuously improve platform quality and engineering standards

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Developer to design and build core services that enable secure, scalable, and observable AI agent execution. This role focuses on deep technical implementation, platform reliability, and enabling other engineering teams to successfully integrate with Agent Platform capabilities.
The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer who thrives in distributed systems environments and enjoys solving complex backend and infrastructure challenges.

What You'll Do
Core Engineering

 * Design and implement production-grade backend services supporting AI-driven workflows
 * Contribute to execution orchestration, task routing, and tool invocation systems
 * Develop APIs and service contracts that are stable, extensible, and well-documented
 * Implement robust authentication, authorization, and secure execution patterns

Reliability & Observability

 * Build systems with strong logging, metrics, and tracing from the ground up
 * Improve system resilience, fault tolerance, and performance
 * Participate in production readiness, monitoring, and incident response processes

Platform Enablement

 * Collaborate with product and engineering teams integrating with the Agent Platform
 * Provide technical guidance on best practices and integration patterns
 * Contribute to reusable infrastructure components and developer tooling


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