Gusto is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Developer Productivity - Async team. You will focus on improving developer productivity by enhancing the tools and systems used by product engineers, ensuring our asynchronous processing infrastructure is efficient, reliable, and scalable.

What You'll Do

Identify and solve inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers.
Design, pitch, plan, measure, and implement solutions iteratively, utilizing AI tools for large scale code migrations.
Collaborate closely with product engineering colleagues to anticipate and address upcoming changes.
Develop and maintain services, abstractions, and architecture to support product engineering.
Advance the use of Kafka and Sidekiq for asynchronous processing and communication.
Harden the async infrastructure to be resilient under heavy loads across a wide variety of use cases.

What We're Looking For

12+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of driving impact at scale.
Systems thinker with strong communication skills.
Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
Experience with Rails and Ruby, including developer tooling for large engineering teams.
Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners.
Active working knowledge and architecture experience with Ruby.
Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements with AI assistance.

Technical Stack

Rails
Ruby
Sidekiq
Kafka

Team & Environment

You will join the Developer Productivity - Async team, focused on supporting product engineers across Gusto.

Benefits & Compensation

Compensation: $200,000-$230,000 per year in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$270,000 per year for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role open in Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; and Toronto, Ontario, CAN.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.