RAMP
Staff Software Engineer | FedRAMP Infrastructure Washington, D.C.
RAMP, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
About Ramp
At Ramp, were rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isnt just the next big wave. Its the new foundation for how business gets done. Were investing in that future and in the people bold enough to build it. Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. But were not just building features powered by AI. Were building a platform where agents can chase receipts, close books, flag risks, and surface insights. This enables teams to reclaim their time and reinvest in what matters. More than 40,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $80 billion in purchases each year. Ramps investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, among others, in addition to 100+ angel investors who have been founders or executives of leading companies. Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies. About the Role Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world. Our Infrastructure supports the foundations of our product and platform, owning areas like compute orchestration, databases, messaging, observability, and developer environments. We build the primitives and abstractions that let product teams move fast while ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.
This role is a cross-functional position within the Infrastructure organization, with a specific focus on enabling our government environments (FedRAMP, GovRAMP). Youll act as both a technical owner and a multiplier: helping shape compliant infrastructure patterns, identifying risks across infra domains, and partnering closely with other infra engineers to ensure our architecture continues to meet strict operational and security requirements. You will be expected to take ownership of our government infrastructure and guide its evolution, while also contributing to high-leverage infra projects across the org.
Our ideal candidate combines deep cloud infrastructure experience with a strong sense of ownership, collaborative instincts, understands the nuances of operating in secure and regulated environments, and has a desire to mentor others and raise the bar across the team. What Youll Do Influence the evolution of Ramps infrastructure to support our government environments
Work across infra domains to contribute to the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure, and ensure proposed changes are viable within our secure environments
Collaborate across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify architecture and increase developer velocity and ownership
Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low-latency problems
Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical production events
Mentor other engineers and contribute to a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture
What You Need Minimum 6 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred
Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform
Proficiency in an object-oriented programing language
FedRAMP Requirements Proven experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS) compliant with FedRAMP security standards.
Expertise implementing secure Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions aligned with FedRAMP controls and audits.
Deep understanding of secure data handling, encryption, logging, and access controls required under FedRAMP guidelines.
Strong experience building, scaling, and securing database infrastructure and container orchestration systems to meet FedRAMP compliance.
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
Pet insurance
Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf. Other notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice #J-18808-Ljbffr
At Ramp, were rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isnt just the next big wave. Its the new foundation for how business gets done. Were investing in that future and in the people bold enough to build it. Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. But were not just building features powered by AI. Were building a platform where agents can chase receipts, close books, flag risks, and surface insights. This enables teams to reclaim their time and reinvest in what matters. More than 40,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $80 billion in purchases each year. Ramps investors include Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and Redpoint, among others, in addition to 100+ angel investors who have been founders or executives of leading companies. Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies. About the Role Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world. Our Infrastructure supports the foundations of our product and platform, owning areas like compute orchestration, databases, messaging, observability, and developer environments. We build the primitives and abstractions that let product teams move fast while ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.
This role is a cross-functional position within the Infrastructure organization, with a specific focus on enabling our government environments (FedRAMP, GovRAMP). Youll act as both a technical owner and a multiplier: helping shape compliant infrastructure patterns, identifying risks across infra domains, and partnering closely with other infra engineers to ensure our architecture continues to meet strict operational and security requirements. You will be expected to take ownership of our government infrastructure and guide its evolution, while also contributing to high-leverage infra projects across the org.
Our ideal candidate combines deep cloud infrastructure experience with a strong sense of ownership, collaborative instincts, understands the nuances of operating in secure and regulated environments, and has a desire to mentor others and raise the bar across the team. What Youll Do Influence the evolution of Ramps infrastructure to support our government environments
Work across infra domains to contribute to the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure, and ensure proposed changes are viable within our secure environments
Collaborate across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify architecture and increase developer velocity and ownership
Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low-latency problems
Participate in an on-call rotation to address critical production events
Mentor other engineers and contribute to a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture
What You Need Minimum 6 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred
Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform
Proficiency in an object-oriented programing language
FedRAMP Requirements Proven experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS) compliant with FedRAMP security standards.
Expertise implementing secure Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) solutions aligned with FedRAMP controls and audits.
Deep understanding of secure data handling, encryption, logging, and access controls required under FedRAMP guidelines.
Strong experience building, scaling, and securing database infrastructure and container orchestration systems to meet FedRAMP compliance.
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
Pet insurance
Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf. Other notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice #J-18808-Ljbffr