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Gusto·San Francisco Bay Area, United States·onsite

Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Posted 15 days ago
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Ruby optionalTypeScript

About the role

What you'll do

  • Lead the development and evolution of the observability platform including logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure.
  • Build and integrate AI-native capabilities for anomaly detection, failure diagnosis, and root cause analysis.
  • Create developer tools such as dashboards, notebooks, and interactive debugging experiences.
  • Drive reliability automation with intelligent alerting, diagnostics, and incident response systems.
  • Collaborate across teams to embed observability and reliability best practices and mentor engineers.

What you should know

  • The role requires 8+ years of experience in building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure.
  • Candidates should be comfortable working in ambiguous environments and solving unscoped problems end to end.
  • Strong communication skills are essential to align technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
  • Opportunity to influence and shape engineering standards and reliability culture across the organization.
  • Hybrid onsite work is expected 2-3 days per week in the San Francisco Bay Area office.

About the company

  • Gusto is a mission-driven company focused on empowering the small business economy with payroll, HR, and benefits solutions.
  • The company supports over 200,000 small businesses nationwide with offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.
  • Gusto emphasizes a collaborative and inclusive workplace culture with hybrid work expectations.
  • They integrate AI tools as a fundamental part of their workflows and encourage employee fluency in AI.
  • Gusto offers competitive compensation, benefits, and equity to all full-time employees, reflecting shared success.

Key required skills

RubyPythonTypeScriptAWSKubernetesTerraformDatadogDistributed systems

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