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Company

Workiva · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer - Site Reliability

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$120K/yr - $204K/yr

4+ years exp

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

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PythonGoDockerAWSJavaSystems performance tuningLoad testingNginxMySQLPostgreSQLGitGitHubHTML5JavaScriptDartReactApache Kafka

Required

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

A discretionary bonus typically paid annually

Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire

401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

Company

Workiva

Glassdoor

4.3

Workiva created Wdesk, a cloud-based platform for enterprises to collect, manage, report, and analyze critical business data in real time.

Founded in 2008

Ames, Iowa, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.workiva.com

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