AI-Savvy Principal Software Engineer — Platform Strategy

Sustain.Life

United States

On-site

USD 177,000 - 284,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus
RSUs
401(k) match
Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Workiva is building an AI-enabled enterprise platform for finance, risk and sustainability. We seek a Principal Software Engineer to define strategy, deliver complex systems and raise the technical bar across teams.

You’ll design AI-driven systems, create guardrails and validation layers, and partner with product leaders to ensure outcomes align with business goals. Remote work from within the US is supported, with a security-first engineering culture.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years building and scaling complex software systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; or 6+ years with Master; or PhD with 4+ years.
  • Experience using AI as a primary development collaborator with high quality output.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with engineering teams to co-deliver complex work across platform modernization, product evolution and new product bets.
  • Lead technical strategy across large, multi-team initiatives with long-term impact.
  • Design AI-driven systems and autonomous engineering workflows.
  • Mentor Staff+ engineers and align technical decisions with business outcomes.

Skills

AI collaboration
Distributed systems
Architecture judgment
Cross-team leadership
Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Advanced degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AI tooling
Testing/validation

Job description

Workiva is building an AI-enabled enterprise platform for finance, risk and sustainability. We seek a Principal Software Engineer to define strategy, deliver complex systems and raise the technical bar across teams.

You’ll design AI-driven systems, create guardrails and validation layers, and partner with product leaders to ensure outcomes align with business goals. Remote work from within the US is supported, with a security-first engineering culture.

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