Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ramp, a leading financial operations platform, as a Senior Database Engineer and contribute to building the best engineering team in the world. You will be responsible for influencing and implementing the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure. You will work across the engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies. You will also build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership. This role requires 2+ years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems, production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure, expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), proficiency in an object-oriented programming language, and deep experience in one of the following: large-scale SQL database administration, real-time queue systems, or container orchestration/web server administration.

Requirements

• Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
• An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
• Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform
• Proficiency in an object-oriented programing language
• Deep experience in one of the following
• Large-scale SQL database administration (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Real-time queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal)
• Container Orchestration/Web Server Administration (ECS/Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask)

Responsibilities

• Influence and implement the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure
• Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
• Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
• Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low latency problems
• Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events

Preferred Qualifications

2+ of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
• Partially covered for your dependents
• One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support to NYC or SF
• Pet insurance