Staff Software Engineer - Build Stability

About the Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Build Stability you will be instrumental in shaping the developer experience for hundreds of engineers at Gusto. You will be part of the team that owns the broader CI ecosystem focused on improving its performance scalability and reliability. Your work will directly impact how quickly we can deliver value to our customers by making our development and deployment pipelines faster and more efficient. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who is passionate about developer tooling and infrastructure. Crucially you will also be exploring and implementing innovative ways to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to further optimize our CI and related systems. You will collaborate closely with engineers across various teams to understand their needs and provide effective solutions with a forward-thinking approach towards incorporating intelligent solutions.

About the Team:

The Build Stability team part of the Developer Productivity organization is at the heart of this mission owning the Continuous Integration (CI) system that powers our development lifecycle. We are responsible for empowering our software engineers through consistent reliable and delightful build systems that maximizes engineering velocity and minimizes friction to shipping.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

• You will manage maintain and evolve our core CI system primarily centered around Buildkite ensuring it can handle our growing engineering organization's needs.

• Champion AI-native patterns within the build and CI domain to increase developer efficiency and velocity.

• Dive deep into our build and test pipelines to identify bottlenecks. You'll implement solutions to drastically reduce build times and improve resource utilization.

• Design implement and maintain critical developer workflow tools like merge queues to ensure our main branch is always stable and developers can integrate their code reliably and efficiently.

• Own and enhance our systems for automatically detecting quarantining and reporting on flaky tests. Your work here will directly improve the reliability of our test suites and boost developer confidence in our CI system.

• Build robust tools and services that enhance developer workflows improve observability into our build system and automate manual processes.

• Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs provide support and champion best practices for building and testing their services effectively.

• Proactively monitor the health of our CI platform troubleshoot complex issues and implement measures to prevent future failures ensuring a stable foundation for all of Gusto's developers.

Here’s what we're looking for:

• 10+ years of software development experience

• Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively.

• Curiosity and ability to operate in an AI-native environment — integrating intelligence automation and experimentation to increase developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements.

• Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.

• Experience with developer tooling for large engineering teams.

• Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners.

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $175000/yr to $195000/yr in Denver & most remote locations and $210000/yr to $235000/yr in New York Seattle & San Francisco Bay Area. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.