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Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

Workiva94 open roles

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$129,000 – $210,000 a year
Where
USA - Remote
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12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Workiva postings stay open a median of 35 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: posted 18 days ago

Workiva median: 35 days open

The posting

Lead development of the quality systems that help Workiva’s Financial Reporting teams ship customer-facing innovation with speed and confidence.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for the testing activities, quality platform, engineering standards, and developer workflows that support multiple product teams across multiple products You’ll solve complex problems in test infrastructure, distributed-systems validation, CI/CD reliability, performance, and observability, not simply automate test cases.

You will partner with Principal Engineers, Product Directors, other Quality teams and Engineering leaders to make quality an integrated capability of the software delivery lifecycle rather than a late-stage checkpoint. This is a Staff-level individual contributor role with broad organizational influence: you will set technical direction, build high-leverage solutions, and enable teams to adopt scalable quality practices.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and execute the technical vision for quality engineering across FInancial Reporting Products, including reusable test tooling, infrastructure, standards, and paved-road developer experiences
  • Set and own governance standards that keep AI-generated code and agent integrations safe, testable, and consistent across services.
  • Rate every agent-callable surface for AI readiness before integration, and define rollback or human-confirmation paths for agent actions.
  • Architect, build, and evolve scalable automated test frameworks that support API, integration, contract, end-to-end, user-workflow, performance, and resiliency testing
  • Design and implement quality-platform capabilities for complex distributed systems, including CI/CD integrations, test-environment strategies, release validation, and actionable quality signals
  • Drive comprehensive performance, load, scale, reliability, and chaos-testing approaches for critical services and customer workflows
  • Establish meaningful quality metrics, telemetry standards, and dashboards that help engineering teams identify release risk, system vulnerabilities, and customer-impacting regressions early
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to embed quality practices throughout planning, development, delivery, and production operations
  • Lead multi-quarter, cross-functional technical initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, adoption, and measurable outcomes
  • Work closely with Principal Engineers, Product Directors, and Engineering Leadership to align quality investments with product strategy, architectural roadmaps, and customer needs
  • Prototype and personally deliver high-leverage platform components while enabling product teams to adopt and extend shared capabilities
  • Lead and mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, raise the technical bar for quality engineering, and create repeatable practices that scale beyond a single team
  • Champion a customer-centered quality mindset by connecting production signals, user workflows, and engineering decisions to the customer experience
  • Drive alignment across product lines and stakeholders to resolve ambiguous technical problems and establish durable engineering standards

What You’ll Need

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering, software development in test, test infrastructure, quality engineering, or a related technical discipline

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience leading complex, ambiguous, multi-team technical initiatives from technical strategy through delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes
  • Demonstrated fluency operating with and evaluating AI-assisted/agent-authored code, at an advanced level.
  • Experience building evaluation frameworks that measure AI agent decision-correctness, not just latency/availability/uptime.
  • Managed outsourced testing teams
  • Deep experience designing and building scalable automated testing strategies, frameworks, and tooling for distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and backend infrastructure
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in one or more modern languages, such as TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
  • Experience building quality capabilities across the software delivery lifecycle, including CI/CD integration, test environments, release validation, observability, and multiple testing layers such as unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, and resiliency testing
  • Experience architecting quality-engineering solutions in cloud-native environments and with tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Playwright
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical leaders, mentor engineers, establish reusable platforms or standards, and drive alignment across multiple product teams or globally distributed engineering organizations

Travel Requirements & Working Conditions

  • Up to 10% travel for team jams and internal developer conference
  • Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office

How You’ll Be Rewarded

✅ Salary range in the US: $129,000.00 - $210,000.00

✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually

✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire

✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Why Join Workiva

Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation—ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.

At Workiva, you’ll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If you’re energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we’d love to meet you.

Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email [email protected].

Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.

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