Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and implement the technical vision for quality engineering across Financial Reporting Products, encompassing reusable testing tools, infrastructure, standards, and seamless developer experiences.

• Establish and uphold governance standards that ensure AI-generated code and agent integrations are safe, testable, and consistent across services.

• Evaluate every agent-callable interface for AI readiness prior to integration, and outline rollback or human-confirmation procedures for agent actions.

• Design, build, and enhance scalable automated testing frameworks for API, integration, contract, end-to-end, user work-flows, performance, and resiliency testing.

• Create and implement quality-platform capabilities for distributed systems, including CI/CD integrations, testing environment strategies, release validation, and actionable quality indicators.

• Promote performance, load, scalability, reliability, and chaos-testing methodologies for critical services and customer work-flows.

• Develop quality metrics, telemetry standards, and dashboards to proactively identify release risks, system vulnerabilities, and customer-impacting regressions.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to incorporate quality practices throughout planning, development, delivery, and production processes.

• Lead multi-quarter, cross-functional technical initiatives from problem definition through architecture, implementation, adoption, and measurable results.

• Align quality investments with product strategies, architectural roadmaps, and customer requirements.

• Prototype and personally deliver high-leverage platform components while empowering product teams to adopt and expand shared capabilities.

• Guide and mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers, creating scalable and repeatable practices that extend beyond individual teams.

• Link production signals, user workflows, and engineering decisions to enhance the customer experience.

• Foster alignment across product lines and stakeholders to address ambiguous technical challenges and establish robust engineering standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• 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.

• Proven experience leading complex, ambiguous, multi-team technical initiatives from technical strategy through delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated proficiency in working with and evaluating AI-assisted/agent-authored code at an advanced level.

• Experience in building evaluation frameworks that assess AI agent decision correctness, beyond just latency, availability, or uptime.

• Managed outsourced testing teams effectively.

• Extensive experience in designing and developing scalable automated testing strategies, frameworks, and tools for distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and backend infrastructure.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, such as TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.

• Experience in developing quality capabilities throughout the software delivery lifecycle, including CI/CD integration, testing 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 like Kubernetes, Docker, and Playwright.

• Proven ability to influence technical leaders, mentor engineers, establish reusable platforms or standards, and foster alignment across multiple product teams or globally distributed engineering organizations.

• Reliable internet access for remote work, not based in a Workiva office.

🏝️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically awarded annually.

• Restricted Stock Units granted upon hiring.

• 401(k) matching program.

• Comprehensive employee benefits package.

• Flexibility to work from an office or remotely from any location within your country of employment.

• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.