diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 1043db4dd..1d140f06b 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ end
 ```ruby
 # config/initializers/sidekiq.rb
 require "sidekiq/middleware/current_attributes"
-Sidekiq::CurrentAttributes.persist(Myapp::Current) # Your AS:CurrentAttributes singleton
+Sidekiq::CurrentAttributes.persist(Myapp::Current) # Your AS::CurrentAttributes singleton
 ```
+- Implement `queue_as` and `wait_until` for ActiveJob compatibility [#5003]
 - Retry Redis operation if we get an `UNBLOCKED` Redis error. [#4985]
 - Run existing signal traps, if any, before running Sidekiq's trap. [#4991]
 
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/worker.rb b/lib/sidekiq/worker.rb
index ea2c879ed..1500db9ca 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/worker.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/worker.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ module Sidekiq
   #
   #   class HardWorker
   #     include Sidekiq::Worker
+  #     sidekiq_options queue: 'critical', retry: 5
   #
   #     def perform(*args)
   #       # do some work
@@ -20,6 +21,26 @@ module Sidekiq
   #   HardWorker.perform_async(1, 2, 3)
   #
   # Note that perform_async is a class method, perform is an instance method.
+  #
+  # Sidekiq::Worker also includes several APIs to provide compatibility with
+  # ActiveJob.
+  #
+  #   class SomeWorker
+  #     include Sidekiq::Worker
+  #     queue_as :critical
+  #
+  #     def perform(...)
+  #     end
+  #   end
+  #
+  #   SomeWorker.set(wait_until: 1.hour).perform_async(123)
+  #
+  # Note that arguments passed to the job must still obey Sidekiq's
+  # best practice for simple, JSON-native data types. Sidekiq will not
+  # implement ActiveJob's more complex argument serialization. For
+  # this reason, we don't implement `perform_later` as our call semantics
+  # are very different.
+  #
   module Worker
     ##
     # The Options module is extracted so we can include it in ActiveJob::Base
@@ -153,10 +174,16 @@ class Setter
       def initialize(klass, opts)
         @klass = klass
         @opts = opts
+
+        # ActiveJob compatibility
+        interval = @opts.delete(:wait_until)
+        at(interval) if interval
       end
 
       def set(options)
+        interval = options.delete(:wait_until)
         @opts.merge!(options)
+        at(interval) if interval
         self
       end
 
@@ -167,16 +194,19 @@ def perform_async(*args)
       # +interval+ must be a timestamp, numeric or something that acts
       #   numeric (like an activesupport time interval).
       def perform_in(interval, *args)
+        at(interval).perform_async(*args)
+      end
+      alias_method :perform_at, :perform_in
+
+      private
+
+      def at(interval)
         int = interval.to_f
         now = Time.now.to_f
         ts = (int < 1_000_000_000 ? now + int : int)
-
-        payload = @opts.merge("class" => @klass, "args" => args)
-        # Optimization to enqueue something now that is scheduled to go out now or in the past
-        payload["at"] = ts if ts > now
-        @klass.client_push(payload)
+        @opts["at"] = ts if ts > now
+        self
       end
-      alias_method :perform_at, :perform_in
     end
 
     module ClassMethods
@@ -192,6 +222,10 @@ def delay_until(*args)
         raise ArgumentError, "Do not call .delay_until on a Sidekiq::Worker class, call .perform_at"
       end
 
+      def queue_as(q)
+        sidekiq_options("queue" => q.to_s)
+      end
+
       def set(options)
         Setter.new(self, options)
       end
diff --git a/test/test_worker.rb b/test/test_worker.rb
index 0a3542a2f..76f5ca167 100644
--- a/test/test_worker.rb
+++ b/test/test_worker.rb
@@ -5,13 +5,30 @@
 
     class SetWorker
       include Sidekiq::Worker
-      sidekiq_options :queue => :foo, 'retry' => 12
+      queue_as :foo
+      sidekiq_options 'retry' => 12
     end
 
     def setup
       Sidekiq.redis {|c| c.flushdb }
     end
 
+    it "provides basic ActiveJob compatibilility" do
+      q = Sidekiq::ScheduledSet.new
+      assert_equal 0, q.size
+      jid = SetWorker.set(wait_until: 1.hour).perform_async(123)
+      assert jid
+      assert_equal 1, q.size
+
+      q = Sidekiq::Queue.new("foo")
+      assert_equal 0, q.size
+      SetWorker.perform_async
+      assert_equal 1, q.size
+
+      SetWorker.set(queue: 'xyz').perform_async
+      assert_equal 1, Sidekiq::Queue.new("xyz").size
+    end
+
     it 'can be memoized' do
       q = Sidekiq::Queue.new('bar')
       assert_equal 0, q.size