Sr. Software Engineer I

You Will

Own and evolve CI/CD "paved road" tooling

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable CI/CD workflows (guardrails, automation, reusable patterns/templates).
• Enhance Backstage as the unified developer portal, improving CI/CD visibility, deployment tracking, and self-service workflows.
• Improve developer feedback loops: reduce flaky pipelines, speed up builds/tests, and increase observability of the release toolchain.
• Operationally support release tooling (triage, incident follow-ups, preventative improvements).

Drive Ruby/Rails platform upgrades (monolith + ecosystem)

• Lead or heavily contribute to Ruby and Rails upgrade efforts, including:
  • Coordinating cross-repo changes (application, Docker/CI images, shared gems, test strategy).
  • Creating safe rollout plans (canaries, staged deploys, rollback paths) and enabling other teams through docs/runbooks.

Platform enablement

• Build and improve self-service tooling and Golden Path workflows through Backstage, CI/CD templates, and standardized patterns so service teams can safely own their own infra, config, and auth changes without gatekeepers.
• Help standardize and operationalize Auth0 and other authentication/authorization patterns across environments.
• Partner with service teams to drive Golden Path adoption, unblock migrations, and turn platform investments into org-wide leverage.

Embrace AI to accelerate delivery and improve developer experience

• Use AI-assisted development responsibly to increase throughput and quality (e.g., faster iteration, better testing strategies, improved docs/runbooks).
• Help the org adopt AI tools safely and effectively by sharing best practices and patterns.

You Have

• CI/CD, Release Engineering, (Buildkite/Backstage)
• ArgoCD, Kubernetes
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Bundler, dependency management
• Runtime/framework upgrades (Ruby upgrades, Rails upgrades)
• Auth0 (or similar IdP), OAuth/OIDC concepts, M2M authentication
• Terraform / infrastructure-as-code (nice-to-have)
• Observability, on-call/operational support, incident analysis
• AI-assisted development (Cursor, Claude Code) and best-practice sharing
• Working experience in a PAAS environment

Compensation: Base salary range $127,000-$191,000 plus bonus potential.