Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Remote United States
Full Time Posted 30 days ago
Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
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
- 4+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field
- 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
- Experience building one or more of unit, integration, functional user acceptance, or contract tests
- Demonstrated experience leading initiatives with successful outcomes
- Expert in Cloud Infrastructure (AWS), Kubernetes (EKS), and containerization
- Expert in inter-service communication development in a microservice environment including a fundamental understanding of technologies such as CNI, Service Mesh, Load Balancers, Ingress Controllers, Gateway API, and Network Policies
- Expertise in advanced networking including deep understanding of the OSI model, custom routing in Linux, and VPC management in a cloud environment
- Familiarity with implementing FedRAMP moderate controls in a high compliance cloud environment
- Familiarity with Hardware Security Modules and FIPS 140-2 standards for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information
- Experience with advanced Kubernetes scaling mechanisms utilizing tools such as Karpenter, with a demonstrated ability to optimize scaling to meet financial goals
- Expert level understanding of a Linux operating system
- Experience with Packer and Docker for building and managing machine and container images
- Experience using tools such as Helm, Terraform, and CloudFormation to automate, standardize, and abstract the creation of cloud resources from development teams
- Proficient in programming Bash, Python, and Golang
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively within a cross-functional team
- A reliable internet connection serves as the conduit for brilliance, enabling the unleashing of talents from the comfort of virtually anywhere
- Typically no more than 10% travel for Workiva’s Internal Developer Conference and team-based opportunities
- Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
- Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
- Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
- Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
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