Gusto · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Build Stability
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $195K/yr
10+ years expGusto is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, and HR for small businesses. As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Build Stability, you will enhance the developer experience by improving the CI ecosystem, leveraging AI, and collaborating with various teams to streamline development and deployment processes.
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Responsibilities
You will manage, maintain, and evolve our core CI system, primarily centered around Buildkite, ensuring it can handle our growing engineering organization's needs
Champion AI-native patterns within the build and CI domain to increase developer efficiency and velocity
Dive deep into our build and test pipelines to identify bottlenecks. You'll implement solutions to drastically reduce build times and improve resource utilization
Design, implement, and maintain critical developer workflow tools like merge queues to ensure our main branch is always stable and developers can integrate their code reliably and efficiently
Own and enhance our systems for automatically detecting, quarantining, and reporting on flaky tests. Your work here will directly improve the reliability of our test suites and boost developer confidence in our CI system
Build robust tools and services that enhance developer workflows, improve observability into our build system, and automate manual processes
Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs, provide support, and champion best practices for building and testing their services effectively
Proactively monitor the health of our CI platform, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement measures to prevent future failures, ensuring a stable foundation for all of Gusto's developers
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software development experience
Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively
Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment — integrating intelligence, automation, and experimentation to increase developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements
Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code
Experience with developer tooling for large engineering teams
Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners
Benefits
Health Insurance
401(k)s
Stock equity
Company
Gusto
Gusto is an HR and payroll platform that simplifies complex tasks, empowering businesses to focus on what matters most.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Gusto has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (49)
2024 (54)
2023 (19)
2022 (37)
2021 (24)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$746.1MKey Investors
Friends & Family CapitalT. Rowe PriceAkkadian Ventures
2023-01-28Series Unknown
2022-05-12Series E· $55M
2021-08-10Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Josh Reeves
Head of Gusto (CEO) and Co-Founder. Building Gusto for the Long Term.
Edward Kim
Co-founder and Head of Technology
Recent News
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