Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure - Remote - IA

As a Staff Software Engineer at Workiva, you will serve as the technical leader and guide for our team responsible for managing our company's Kubernetes and Networking Infrastructure on AWS. You'll play a key role in shaping our technical direction, leading the development of team-level features, and solutions, and providing technical guidance and mentorship to your colleagues.

What You’ll Do

• Lead product discovery efforts to understand stakeholder needs and scope product changes effectively

• Break down complex tasks into manageable components

• Independently develop and enhance partially defined features and services

• Lead development of team level features, solutions, and libraries

• Impact colleagues by guiding team members on technical challenges, contributing to technical communities, modeling continuous team improvement, and proposing technical onboarding tasks

• Evolve solution quality through code-reviews, automated testing, and collaboration with stakeholders

• Guide the team to resolve complex incidents and analyze the root cause of operational issues to identify patterns for improvement

• Represent the team and its software when stakeholders require integration assistance, education, or alleviation of potential technical risks

• Establish key metrics to identify software problems, suggest solutions, and drive resolution

• Assure that all the team’s software is built in a uniform and consistent manner aligning with the company’s standards and best practices, as well as the appropriate architecture

• Solicit input to gather diverse perspectives, and models blameless discussion of technical issues

What You'll Need

Required Qualifications

Education and Experience

• 4+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Experience

• Experience in software development and expertise applying computer science fundamentals, with multiple competencies of: data structures, algorithms, object-oriented software design, functional programming, and cloud-based distributed systems …