Workiva

Senior Staff Software Engineer

USA - Remote · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$151k-$242kDetected 30 days ago

Distributed SystemsCode ReviewAgentic AIDesign SystemsFinancial AnalysisLoad TestingBDDCommunicationCollaborationFinancial Reporting

About the role

Minimums and maximums may vary based on location.
The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Deliver outcomes
Partner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution, and new product initiatives.
Use AI-native development practices to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve quality and leverage.
Help establish thoughtful code review and pre-production quality practices that support fast, reliable delivery.
Lead technical direction for large, cross-team initiatives aligned to long-term platform strategy.
Design systems that balance flexibility, scalability, and maintainability.
Drive early-stage exploration for ambiguous problems, including work where the answer becomes clear through prototyping and building.
Develop AI systems and platform enablement
Build infrastructure that embeds AI into engineering workflows.
Design tools and patterns that reduce manual effort through automation and intelligent assistance.

6+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise software systems.
Experience leading technical strategy and architecture across teams.
Hands-on experience with agentic AI development, including shipping real work with AI as a primary development collaborator.
With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.
Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Experience driving high-impact initiatives across multiple teams
Experience improving engineering quality through TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, mutation testing, or similar approaches.
Strong systems thinking and judgment, including awareness of second-order effects.
Demonstrated proficiency in at least two delivery modes: platform modernization, iterative product evolution, and high-ambition greenfield development.
Ability to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers.
Proven experience operating at Staff+ level across multiple teams or domains.
Strong background in distributed systems and platform architecture.
Experience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts.

$151,000.00 - $242,000.00 ✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US.
The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

At Workiva, we build and scale an enterprise platform that powers complex financial reporting, compliance, and collaboration for some of the world's largest organizations.
We are not simply layering AI onto existing workflows.
We are evolving how engineering gets done.

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