Workday Engineer
About the Team OpenAI's People team helps hire, develop, and support the people building safe and beneficial AGI. Within that team, People Systems builds the technical foundation that enables our HR, recruiting, payroll, benefits, and performance operations to scale with quality, speed, and rigor.
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Workday Engineer at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team OpenAI's People team helps hire, develop, and support the people building safe and beneficial AGI. Within that team, People Systems builds the technical foundation that enables our HR, recruiting, payroll, benefits, and performance operations to scale with quality, speed, and rigor.
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- Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations, applications, and workflow automations across domains such as payroll, benefits, recruiting, performance, and case management
- Improve the reliability, quality, and scalability of People systems through strong engineering, testing, and operational practices
- Build technical solutions that connect Workday with internal platforms, external vendors, and AI-powered tooling
- Contribute to more agentic internal workflows by helping design systems that combine HR data, automation, orchestration, and intelligent tooling
- Use Git-based development practices, code review, and structured change management to deliver safely in a fast-moving environment
- Use CLI-based tools and developer workflows to build, test, troubleshoot, and support production systems efficiently
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- Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations, applications, and workflow automations across domains such as payroll, benefits, recruiting, performance, and case management
- Improve the reliability, quality, and scalability of People systems through strong engineering, testing, and operational practices
- Build technical solutions that connect Workday with internal platforms, external vendors, and AI-powered tooling
- Contribute to more agentic internal workflows by helping design systems that combine HR data, automation, orchestration, and intelligent tooling
- Use Git-based development practices, code review, and structured change management to deliver safely in a fast-moving environment
- Use CLI-based tools and developer workflows to build, test, troubleshoot, and support production systems efficiently
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