Senior Software Engineer, Workiva
Site Reliability
$111-178k
+ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + RSUs
Business data platform
Posted today
Business data platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$111-178k
+ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Workiva’s mission is to power transparent reporting for a better world.
Role
Who you are
- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability, or other relevant experience
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely
- Minimal travel required
Desirable
- Experience with technologies similar to our current technical environment
- Experience with UI developments (Typescript, React, microfrontends, etc), specifically browser telemetry or user experience reliability
- Experience with chaos testing, load testing or any other kind of production testing
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Self-motivated with a strong propensity for action, results and continuous improvement
- Ability to thrive in high-energy, fast paced, rapidly changing environments
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to multitask and manage multiple processes, programs, and procedures simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines
What the job involves
- At Workiva, we prioritize a customer-first philosophy in everything we do. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, you'll be designing and coding innovative solutions that elevate our solutions' reliability and performance
- While this role sits within the SRE team, we’re specifically looking for a traditional software engineer with strong application development experience. You’ll complement our existing SRE expertise by bringing a product-engineering lens to reliability challenges—especially in areas like user-facing tooling, browser telemetry, and internal UX
- You’ll join a team focused on empowering developers across the organization. Instead of managing tickets, our SRE team builds tools, frameworks, and systems that enable product teams to own their services in production—making the right choice the easy choice
- Communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping drive adoption of reliability tooling and practices
- Create solutions and guidance for improved reliability by collaborating directly with engineering teams, focusing on actual pain points
- Build internal tooling to empower teams to monitor and improve the reliability of user experiences, services, and data workflows
- Lead design and development of observability and resiliency features using modern frontend and backend technologies
- Contribute to Workiva’s infrastructure through automation, telemetry, and architectural improvements
- Participate in on-call rotations (with strong tooling support) to ensure production systems are operating effectively
- Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, microfrontends and legacy Dart
- Backend & Infrastructure: Go, Python, Java; Kubernetes on AWS
- Data: Kafka, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Observability: OpenTelemetry libraries and Opentelemetry collector
- Tooling & Platforms: Git, GitHub, Docker, NGINX, K8s Operators, Terraform
- How We Work
- Favor written documentation — so we don't forget what we've done
- Willing to try new things and commit to trial periods
- Small, steady improvements > risky overhauls
- Encourage healthy, constructive feedback
- Empathic to the rest of the organization
Our take
For large-scale businesses, collecting and sharing data can be a complex and challenging process. Workiva solves this problem with its cloud-based data platform.
Workiva is one of the biggest players in the market, serving around 75% of Fortune 500 companies, including Google and Delta. Workiva's controlled, secure and audit-ready platform has maintained a clear edge over much of its competition.
Workiva's quality product and its commitment to transparency has made it a firm favourite with companies around the world. If it can maintain this, it stands to consolidate its impressive growth even further in the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2014
$0.7m
EARLY VC
Dec 2012
$30.7m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.9m
Company benefits
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401k w/ match
- Health, dental, and vision
- Vacation accruals
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Volunteer time-off
- Parental leave
- Travel & accident insurance
- Paid holidays
- Work remotely
- Discount programs
- Health and wellness
- Pet-friendly atmosphere
- Choose from additional plans that cover legal expenses, stolen identity, or even your pet's health
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Marty Vanderploeg
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked as a Professor at Iowa State University. Founded Engineer Animation Inc. in 1990.
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