Join to apply for the Senior/ Staff Engineer - Databases Infrastructure role at Gusto
Join to apply for the Senior/ Staff Engineer - Databases Infrastructure role at Gusto
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.
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.
Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
Staff Engineer - Databases infrastructure
Gusto’s Storage Infrastructure Engineering team builds consistent, scalable, and secure storage infrastructure using tools like terraform to manage technologies like MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and S3.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
- Design and implement production-grade data storage platforms that optimize for resiliency and usability, ensuring they effectively support the needs of Gusto's product engineering teams.
- Plan and execute complex and challenging migrations that help Gusto move forward from legacy systems to more efficient, scalable, modern designs.
- Establish standards and build deterministic automation while optimizing for data consistency and security
- Continually improve the on call experience by proposing and implementing long term oriented solutions while optimizing for the sustainability of on call.
- 6+ years of experience with software development and architecture
- Strong ability to write code at a software developer level
- 4+ years of experience working in depth with database technologies like MySQL or Postgres
- 4+ years of experience working with data streaming technologies, particularly Kafka
- Strong work ethic and self starter who finds a way to operate effectively amidst ambiguity
- Systems Thinking approach to complex systems who seeks to identify small changes that can create big impact.
- Resilient problem solver capable of doing whatever it takes to get work done in service of our peers as well as the entire Gusto customer base.
- Effective communicator that can simplify complex topics and communicate persuasive ideas
- Experience designing elegant but simple systems that optimize for resiliency, but can be easily maintained and operated upon
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure and correlated IaaS management tools such Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi
- Experience migrating to a horizontally sharded database system
- Experience leading incident remediation for complex systems
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.
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.
Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
Gusto takes security and protection of your personal information very seriously. Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer.
Personal information collected and processed as part of your Gusto application will be subject to Gusto's Applicant Privacy Notice.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries
Software Development
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Gusto by 2x
Get notified about new Senior Staff Software Engineer jobs in Greater Chicago Area .
Software Engineer Project Lead - React / Node
Chicago, IL $170,000.00-$190,000.00 4 months ago
Chicago, IL $170,000.00-$190,000.00 4 months ago
Chicago, IL $170,000.00-$210,000.00 5 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech
Senior Software Engineer (Remote) - React, Node
Senior Software Engineer - North American Sports
Greater Chicago Area $107,000.00-$179,000.00 1 week ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Time Engineering
Greater Chicago Area $191,000.00-$279,000.00 1 week ago
Chicago, IL $105,000.00-$215,000.00 5 days ago
Chicago, IL $131,000.00-$178,000.00 1 week ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments
Greater Chicago Area $191,000.00-$265,000.00 1 day ago
Rosemont, IL $131,000.00-$178,000.00 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Focus
Chicago, IL $122,000.00-$153,000.00 1 week ago
Chicago, IL $110,000.00-$140,000.00 1 day ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Local Environments Team
Chicago, IL $200,000.00-$250,000.00 2 days ago
Greater Chicago Area $147,500.00-$195,000.00 1 week ago
Staff Software Engineer: GraphQL Platform
Greater Chicago Area $164,000.00-$237,000.00 2 weeks ago
Chicago, IL $135,000.00-$165,000.00 1 week ago
Chicago, IL $130,000.00-$175,000.00 3 days ago
Sr Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering
Greater Chicago Area $164,000.00-$204,000.00 2 weeks ago
Greater Chicago Area $172,500.00-$227,500.00 1 week ago
Chicago, IL $175,000.00-$230,000.00 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Digital Workplace
We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
#J-18808-Ljbffr