Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team, you'll build automation and evolve the foundational systems that support Gusto's products. This is a code-driven infrastructure role, well suited to someone with a DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering background who enjoys solving problems that help other engineers work more effectively. You'll help set the architecture, Infrastructure-as-Code patterns, and operational standards that every Gusto engineer builds on, with real autonomy over how it gets done. Key opportunities include migrating production applications into a modern AWS multi-account architecture, strengthening disaster recovery and compliance, and improving the speed and reliability of our infrastructure tooling.

Gusto's Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the AWS foundations that the rest of our engineering organization depends on. We manage infrastructure as code with Terraform/OpenTofu and run Spacelift, the platform hundreds of engineers use daily to deploy infrastructure changes. This experienced team partners with networking, compute, platform, and application teams to make Gusto's cloud infrastructure more reliable, resilient, and easier to use.

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

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