Staff-level engineer improving developer productivity by enhancing async infrastructure with Sidekiq, Kafka, and AI tooling for a large Ruby on Rails engineering org.
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Hybrid10+ YOEDevOps / SRE
About the role
Responsibilities
Identify and solve inefficiencies in the tooling, APIs, and feedback mechanisms available to product engineers to improve developer productivity.
Design, pitch, plan, measure, and implement solutions iteratively, utilizing AI tools to perform 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 for the growing number of applications at Gusto.
Harden the async infrastructure to be resilient in the face of heavy loads across a wide variety of use cases, utilizing LLMs to reduce incident resolution time.
Requirements
10+ years of software development experience.
Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
Deep experience with Ruby and Rails, including developer tooling for large engineering teams.
Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners.
Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling, infrastructure enhancements, and the strategic use of AI.
Skills
RubyRuby on RailsSidekiqKafkaKarafkaAI ToolsLLMsAsynchronous ProcessingDeveloper ToolingInfrastructure
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