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Gusto · 18 hours ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer- Platform

Utica-Rome Area

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$191K/yr - $214K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Platform Engineering: Design and implement scalable and reliable platform solutions to support Gusto’s product suite. This includes engineering robust backend systems that scale efficiently, integrating technologies like GraphQL, Sidekiq, and Kafka to optimize data handling, background job processing, and event-driven workflows.

Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence by ensuring that the platform is highly available, reliable, and performs well in production environments. Focus on building automated monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization processes to ensure systems run smoothly.

Hands-on Coding & Development: Contribute directly to the codebase, primarily using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL, ensuring high-quality, maintainable code while supporting the performance and reliability of Gusto’s platform.

Code Quality & Reviews: Actively participate in code reviews, providing clear and constructive feedback to maintain high engineering standards, and ensuring the team’s code quality continues to improve over time.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Security and Business teams to identify platform requirements, develop innovative solutions, and ensure seamless integration with other product components.

Platform Performance & Scalability: Focus on optimizing platform performance, working on improving load balancing, caching strategies, and database performance to ensure the platform can scale with increasing traffic and customer demands.

Mentorship & Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, helping them solve technical challenges, pair programming as needed and growing careers of team members. Take the lead on complex projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of platform solutions.

Rapid Prototyping & Feature Launches: Prototype, iterate, and deploy new platform features quickly, contributing to an agile development process that brings value to customers faster.

Foster a Collaborative Environment: Build a collaborative team culture that encourages creativity and innovation, ensuring a positive environment that enables engineers to thrive.

Qualification

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Ruby on RailsPlatform EngineeringPerformance OptimizationAPI DesignData ModelingRedisElasticsearchRabbitMQCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

12+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on platform engineering and expertise in Ruby on Rails.

Solid understanding of platform engineering, including system design, performance optimization, and scaling backend systems.

Strong experience in backend technologies and tools, especially Ruby on Rails.

Experience in building and maintaining highly available and reliable systems, with a focus on operational excellence.

Experience in automated monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and ensuring system health in production environments.

Experience in designing and integrating APIs, ensuring smooth communication between different components of a platform while maintaining system integrity and performance.

Familiarity with tools and frameworks commonly used in platform engineering, such as Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and other technologies that help scale modern systems.

Proven experience leading platform engineering efforts, driving the development of large, complex systems, and managing projects end-to-end.

Advanced experience with data modeling, building and maintaining relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), and designing systems that are maintainable and easily extensible.

Ability to address complex technical challenges related to platform engineering, including optimizing system performance, ensuring reliability, and scaling systems to handle large traffic.

A passion for building solutions that meet customer needs and deliver memorable experiences.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and collaborate effectively across teams.

Benefits

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401(k)s

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Company

Gusto

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Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.

Founded in 2011

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.gusto.com

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