About this Role

This role will be a part of our Developer Experience Team at Gusto! The Developer Experience Team is a small but growing engineering team that empowers the 200+ Product Engineers at Gusto. Gusto Product Engineers move tens of billions of our customers’ dollars every year and the Developer Experience Team helps them work efficiently, securely, and enjoyably.

The ideal Staff Software Engineer will be able to understand the needs of Gusto Product Engineers, and build the appropriate tools and services. As part of the Developer Experience team you are engaged at all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, building tools to increase efficiency during feature development, ensuring our continuous integration and continuous deployment process is efficient and delivers fast feedback, and provide observability tools to help engineers understand the behavior of our software in production.

Here’s what you’ll do (and we’ll support you so you’re great at it):

• Ensure our services communicate with each other seamlessly, have minimal downtime, and recover quickly.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team on coming up with best practices for writing, maintaining and running reliable services.
• Improve our infrastructure setup and deployment strategies.
• Impact the productivity and happiness of our entire team with the tools you build. You’ll be the daily recipient of hugs and high-fives from our engineering and support teams.
• Collaborate with the tools development team to improve our deploy pipeline.
• Pager-duty rotation: Never fear! Most issues occur during work hours.
• Work with our product engineering teams to ensure high performance of our services.

You’ll know you’re a good fit for this role if you have:

• 10+ years of experience in a Platform, SRE, or DevOps role using a Ruby/Kubernetes/AWS stack or similar technologies
• 10+ years of experience coding in Ruby, Golang, or similar (Must have strong ability to code at a software engineering level)
• 5+ years of experience w/ Buildkite or similar to design and implement sophisticated Release and Deploy tooling on Kubernetes
• Experience developing best practices to build out and maintain secure infrastructure, CI systems, service oriented applications, and more
• Enjoys working and deploying technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS, Ruby, Rails, MySql, and Redis
• Loves building tools enabling engineers to move faster, while maintaining security
• Understands the importance of security and compliance when working with personal data
• Tests infrastructure changes thoroughly and likes to double and triple check everything

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $147,000-$206,000 in Denver & most remote locations, and $178,000-$243,000 for San Francisco & New York. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.