Staff Software Engineer, DevOps

Summary

Join Gusto's Developer Experience Team as a Senior Software Engineer and empower 200+ Product Engineers. You will build tools and services to enhance efficiency, security, and enjoyment in software development. Responsibilities include ensuring seamless service communication, collaborating on best practices, improving infrastructure, and working with various teams. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in platform, SRE, or DevOps roles using relevant technologies like Ruby, Kubernetes, and AWS. Gusto offers competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements (with office expectations in Denver, San Francisco, and New York), and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 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
• Understands the importance of security and compliance when working with personal data
• Tests infrastructure changes thoroughly and likes to double and triple check everything

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role)
• When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required