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We solve for high-throughput data, strict consistency, and architectural scale while exploring what AI can do to transform how engineering teams work.\nWe are not simply adding AI to existing workflows. We are redesigning how engineering gets done. That means building systems, practices, and products where AI is a real collaborator in development, testing, validation, and platform evolution.\nWe are hiring a Principal Software Engineer who can operate across multiple modes of work: platform modernization, iterative product development, and high-ambition greenfield exploration. This is a hands-on role for someone who can define strategy, deliver complex systems, and raise the technical bar for the teams around them.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDeliver outcomes\nPartner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution, and new product bets.\n\nAdapt your technical approach, planning style, and delivery strategy to match the needs of the work.\n\nUse AI-native development methods to build automation, validation, and engineering harnesses that improve speed, quality, and leverage.\n\nDefine and drive technical strategy\nLead technical strategy across large, multi-team initiatives with long-term impact.\n\nDefine and evolve system boundaries across complex domains, with a focus on clean interfaces and scalability.\n\nIdentify and remove bottlenecks in performance, data flow, reliability, and architecture.\n\nLead exploration, prototyping, and validation for ambiguous technical problems.\n\nPartner with cross-functional peers on disaster recovery planning, testing, and optimization.\n\nDesign AI-driven systems\nDesign systems that enable autonomous or semi-autonomous engineering workflows.\n\nBuild context-aware infrastructure that connects code, documentation, and systems to AI tooling.\n\nDevelop guardrails such as validation layers, static analysis, and automation hooks to ensure safe and reliable AI-assisted development.\n\nImprove how AI is used across the organization for both effectiveness and efficiency.\n\nInfluence and lead\nRaise the technical bar by helping teams think bigger and execute better.\n\nMentor and challenge Staff+ engineers to expand their scope, judgment, and impact.\n\nPartner with engineering and product leadership to align technical decisions with business outcomes.\n\nCreate durable artifacts such as runbooks, decision logs, and tests that can be handed off and evolved by others.\n\nContribute across product domains, bringing context from one area to solve problems in another.\n\nWhat You'll Need\nMinimum Qualifications\n8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems.\n\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or 6+ years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4+ years of experience; or equivalent practical experience\n\nDemonstrated experience using AI as a primary development collaborator, with a strong quality bar for AI-generated output.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nProven success leading large, cross-pillar technical initiatives.\n\nTrack record of working effectively across platform modernization, iterative product development, and greenfield delivery.\n\nStrong architectural judgment across distributed systems, APIs, and platform design\n\nAbility to operate as a force multiplier for other engineers.\n\nExperience improving engineering testing standards through approaches such as TDD, BDD, load testing, stress testing, chaos testing, invariant testing, or mutation testing.\n\nExperience building infrastructure that improves engineering velocity and quality at scale.\n\nStrong background in distributed systems and platform architecture.\n\nExperience inferring behavioral specifications from existing systems through code, tests, logs, and subject-matter experts.\n\nAbility to deliver production-quality outcomes in a small, time-boxed team setting.\n\nStrong written communication skills and a habit of creating durable, useful artifacts.\n\nA leadership style that empowers others rather than creating dependency.\n\nHow You’ll Be Rewarded\nSalary range in the US: $177,000.00 - $284,000.00A discretionary bonus typically paid annually\nRestricted Stock Units granted at time of hire\n401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package\nThe 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.\nWhy Join Workiva\nWorkiva 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.\nAt 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.\nEmployment 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.\nWorkiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email .\nWorkiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.\nWorkiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.\n#LI-KP1","description_format":"text","description_chars":6470,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Restricted stock units"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Security Compliance","ESG & Carbon Accounting Software","Accounting & Tax Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-26T00:00:00Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":2,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":162500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":2}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.364,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":118,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/workiva-principal-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/workiva-principal-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T22:45:23Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8127,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3690},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3690"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fworkiva-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fworkiva-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fworkiva-principal-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/workiva-principal-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fworkiva-principal-software-engineer"}]}