Staff Site Reliability Software Engineer, Workiva
$120-204k
+ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
Minimal Travel
Business data platform
Be an early applicant
Business data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-204k
+ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually + Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
Minimal Travel
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 site reliability, software engineering, or other relevant experience
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely
Desirable
- Experience with Go, Python, and Docker
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine or Google Compute Engine
- Experience with systems performance tuning and load testing
- Familiarity with Nginx, MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of Git and docker
- Experience with GitHub or other distributed VCS
- Experience writing code that works across platforms and browsers
- Experience with the latest HTML5 technologies (JavaScript/Dart/React)
- Experience running Apache Kafka
- 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
- As a Staff Software Engineer on our Site Reliability team, you'll play a pivotal role in upholding the reliability and performance standards of our infrastructure, which forms the bedrock of our commitment to excellence
- You'll lead the charge as the technical mastermind behind one or more essential components of our systems, requiring hands-on, advanced programming experience in modern object-oriented languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
- A deep understanding of coding, debugging, and optimizing production-level code is essential for this role
- Your track record of delivering top-tier solutions sets you apart, showcasing your wealth of experience, technical depth, and responsibility
- Lead team members in exploring new approaches that will provide optimal, innovative solutions to identified issues
- Collaborate with architects and product managers to design comprehensive software products meeting diverse customer needs
- Foster continuous improvement in technology, methodology, and relationships across R&D
- Act as the Tech Lead within the team
- Resolve critical issues and assist in design decisions using professional concepts
- Clearly communicate concise technical visions and directions
- Estimate effort levels and break down complex problems into management tasks
- Manage dependencies between teams in forecasting and planning
- Provide guidance and solutions to development teams to achieve company goals
- Streamline the processes to move code from development teams to a highly scalable and highly available runtime environment, actively contributing to writing and optimizing code
- Collaborate with Cloud vendors and external technical support for upgrades, problem resolution, and design issues
- Monitor and tune appropriate systems to ensure optimum levels of performance
- Automate tasks using open-source tools with a focus on safety and repeatability, emphasizing the use of programming skills to develop efficient automation
- Participate in on-call rotations which include 24x7 support of complex environments
- Design complete innovative applications or solutions to meet customer needs and requirements
- Design systems to enable rapid development, high availability, and clear observability
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
Insights
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 values
- Customer success: Always delight our customers.
- Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
- Trust: Always rely on each other.
- Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
- Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
- Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
- Collaboration: Share resources and work together.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
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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