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

Desirable

• 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
• 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