Senior Software Developer – AI Platform Engineering

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.

Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.

* Due to security and compliance requirements, applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen or a current U.S. Green Card holder.*

About the opportunity

Dayforce is building a next-generation Agent Platform to power intelligent automation, AI-driven workflows, and tool-enabled execution across our product ecosystem.

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...