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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

189k – 250kDenver, COSan Francisco, CANew York, NYLos Angeles, CAHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

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

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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