Staff Software Engineer, Local Environments Team

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Local Environments Team

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 400,000 businesses nationwide.

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About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Local Environments team, you will be a key player in defining, maintaining and enhancing the local development experience for our software engineering team. You will be responsible for ensuring environments are consistently working, troubleshooting issues, streamlining initial setups, and driving improvements to our tooling and processes. You will also explore and implement innovative ways to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to optimize our development environments and accelerate local development. You will collaborate closely with engineers across teams to understand their needs and provide effective solutions with a forward-thinking approach towards intelligent automation.

About the Team

The Local Environments team, part of the Developer Productivity organization, is responsible for empowering our software engineers through consistent, reliable, and delightful local development experiences that maximize engineering velocity and minimize friction to shipping. We aim to ensure environments are stable, easy to set up, and continually improved, enabling engineers to focus on building software.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and reliability of development environments, focusing on faster developer feedback loops using emerging AI technologies balanced with established practices and tool chains.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of internal platforms and tools related to development environments.
• Work closely with software engineers to understand their pain points and requirements related to local development.
• Collaborate with other infrastructure and platform teams to ensure seamless integration of development environments with other systems.
• Proactively monitor and maintain the health and stability of standard development environments.
• Diagnose and resolve issues related to local setups, including operating system configurations, networking, dependencies, and tooling.

Qualifications

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $190,000 / yr to $210,000 / yr in Denver and most remote locations, and $220,000 / yr to $250,000 / 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.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto\'s subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note : The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

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