# Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

**Company:** [Gusto](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gusto)
**Location:** Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $189k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Kafka, Karafka, AI Tools, LLMs, Asynchronous Processing, Developer Tooling, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-05-26

> Staff-level engineer improving developer productivity by enhancing async infrastructure with Sidekiq, Kafka, and AI tooling for a large Ruby on Rails engineering org.

## Job Description

## 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.

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