Senior Staff Engineer- Platform

About Gusto
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we're proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we're building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About The Role
The Reporting Platform team at Gusto empowers business owners to make better decisions with data and insights through reports and visualizations that span our product lines. The Platform organization at Gusto is in its early stages of building foundational components that can be reused consistently across our product lines. This is an exciting opportunity for engineers passionate about platform engineering and data at scale. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Platform Reporting team, you will help drive our core reporting strategy and its execution across our suite of products. You will bring deep experience in building world-class experiences and systems, strong mentorship skills, and the ability to think holistically about the systems we own. Our product stack is based off of Ruby on Rails and React for our frontend interfaces. Our next generation reporting platform is built on top of Cube and ClickHouse.

Here's What You'll Do Day-to-day

• Identify and solve high-impact problems involving technical and/or organizational complexity that requires understanding and coordination across multiple domains.
• Consistently demonstrate organizational leadership within our core experience teams and beyond.
• Work with engineers and others across team and organizational boundaries to elevate Gusto's engineering quality and velocity.
• Inform and maintain best practices for reliability and observability for the team.
• Communicate and negotiate organizational investment for the creation or expansion of our systems and services.
• Find, explore, and coordinate engineering-wide improvements to our core foundational architecture for reporting.
• Identify the proper abstractions for our platform that allow other engineering teams to use our reporting services.

Here's What We're Looking For

• Experience: 12+ years of professional software development experience. You have been a technical owner for organization-wide engineering initiatives and have played a role in scaling engineering organizations.
• Technical Expertise: Expert-level understanding of SaaS fundamentals. You know how to build and ship SaaS products safely and monitor them in production. You are a go-to person in your organization for technical strategy, decision-making, and problem-solving.
• Effective Communicator: Members of our platform teams must be excellent communicators. You will set the stage for how we interact with other engineering teams and define our process touchpoints. You will be an engineering representative for our platform offerings.
• A track record of learning: Technologies change over time. To succeed in this role, you must jump into unfamiliar areas and quickly develop expertise. We are looking for someone excited about becoming a reporting subject matter expert and who thrives on upleveling their organization through education.

• If you have experience or interest in any of the following areas, we want to talk to you:

• Platform Engineering

• Reporting
• Ruby on Rails
• OLAP datastores
• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $191,000/yr to $225,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $225,000/yr to $265,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York. 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. This includes non-office days for hybrid employees.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

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