Workiva

Principal Software Engineer

USA - Remote · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$177k-$284kDetected 26 days ago

Distributed SystemsDesign SystemsFinancial AnalysisLoad TestingBDDLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationFinancial Reporting

About the role

We solve for high-throughput data, strict consistency, and architectural scale while exploring what AI can do to transform how engineering teams work.
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 bets.
Use AI-native development methods to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve speed, quality, and leverage.
Define and drive technical strategy
Lead technical strategy across large, multi-team initiatives with long-term impact.
Lead exploration, prototyping, and validation for ambiguous technical problems.
Partner with cross-functional peers on disaster recovery planning, testing, and optimization.
Design AI-driven systems
Design systems that enable autonomous or semi-autonomous engineering workflows.
Build context-aware infrastructure that connects code, documentation, and systems to AI tooling.

8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
or 6+ years and a Master's degree
or a PhD with 4+ years of experience
Demonstrated experience using AI as a primary development collaborator, with a strong quality bar for AI-generated output.
Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Proven success leading large, cross-pillar technical initiatives.
Track record of working effectively across platform modernization, iterative product development, and greenfield delivery.
Ability to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers.
Experience improving engineering testing standards through approaches such as TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, or mutation testing.
Strong background in distributed systems and platform architecture.
Experience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts.
Strong written communication skills and a habit of creating durable, useful artifacts.
A leadership style that empowers others rather than creating dependency.

$177,000.00 - $284,000.00 ✅ 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 adding AI to existing workflows.
We are redesigning how engineering gets done.

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