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Gusto

Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Gusto, New York, New York, us, 10261


About GustoGusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 200,000 businesses nationwide.

Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our

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About this RoleThis 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 Senior 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

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

Learn more about the team:

Our Engineering Culture and Values

How We Built a Service-Driven Team

Our Diversity Goals and Efforts

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.

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