2 days ago
Base Salary
$177k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering, platform, InfoSec, SRE, and Compliance teams to build layered safety controls.
- Build pre-production verification using evaluations, invariant tests, and risk-based test selection.
- Automate safety valves across development and delivery so safety does not depend on human review.
- Lead continuous shadow soak, ratified releases, and deliberate per-tenant exposure through the “Ratify Continuously, Expose Deliberately” model.
- Define system invariants and design controls that make unsafe states unreachable.
- Build agentic systems to quarantine flaky tests and move full test suites to nightly runs.
- Design integrity-protected channels and ensure agents cannot control their own guardrails.
- Require privileged actuators to independently verify agent claims about environment, approvals, and test status.
- Test, monitor, and observe AI models in real environments with containment and rollback for unsafe behavior.
- Mentor Staff+ engineers, raise technical standards, create durable technical artifacts, and lead cross-domain initiatives.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling complex software systems, with alternate paths of 6+ years with a Master’s degree or 4+ years with a PhD.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience using AI as a primary development collaborator.
- Preferred experience designing safety-critical, high-assurance, or redundant systems.
- Preferred experience building CI/CD and test infrastructure at scale.
- Preferred experience designing evaluations for LLMs or AI agents.
- Preferred experience with production observability and monitoring.
- Preferred experience with least-privilege access, signed provenance, and policy-as-code.
- Preferred experience with progressive delivery, canary releases, traffic mirroring, and automated rollback.
- Preferred experience with TDD, BDD, load, stress, chaos, invariant, or mutation testing.
- Preferred experience in highly regulated industries such as financial services.
- Proven success leading large cross-pillar technical initiatives and strong written communication skills.
- Ability to empower others and maintain a strong quality bar for AI-generated output.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $177,000.00-$290,000.00 annually.
- Discretionary bonus typically paid annually.
- Restricted Stock Units granted at hire.
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package.
- Up to 10% travel for team jams and an internal developer conference.
- Employees may work from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment; remote work requires reliable internet access.
- Employees receive comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles.
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About Workiva
Workiva builds a cloud platform for connected financial, regulatory, and ESG reporting used by finance, accounting, risk, and audit teams at enterprises and government agencies. Its SaaS products support SEC and SEDAR filings, SOX/internal controls, enterprise risk management, and audit-ready collaboration with data linking and workflow automation. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Ames, Iowa, Workiva is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker WK.