Software Engineer, Local Environments Team
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Local Environments Team
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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.
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About
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity - Local Environments team, you will be a key player in defining, maintaining and enhancing the local development experience for our software engineering team. You will be responsible for ensuring environments are consistently working, troubleshooting issues, streamlining initial setups, and driving improvements to our tooling and processes. Crucially, you will also be exploring and implementing innovative ways to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to further optimize our development environments and accelerate local development.
You will collaborate closely with engineers across various teams to understand their needs and provide effective solutions, with a forward-thinking approach towards incorporating intelligent automation.
About The Team
The Local Environments team, part of the Developer Productivity organization, is responsible for empowering our software engineers through consistent, reliable, and delightful local development experiences that maximizes engineering velocity and minimizes friction to shipping. We understand that a well-functioning local environment is crucial for productivity, innovation, and overall developer happiness. We proactively work to ensure environments are stable, easy to set up, and continuously improved, allowing our engineers to focus on building amazing software.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
- Identify opportunities for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance the efficiency and reliability of development environments with a focus on building faster developer feedback loops leveraging emerging AI technologies balanced with established practices and tool chains.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of internal platforms and tools related to development environments.
- Work closely with software engineers to understand their pain points and requirements related to local development.
- Collaborate with other infrastructure and platform teams to ensure seamless integration of development environments with other systems.
- Proactively monitor and maintain the health and stability of standard development environments.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to local setups, including operating system configurations, networking, dependencies, and tooling.
- 12+ years of software development experience
- Systems thinker with a strong ability to communicate effectively.
- Comfortable with architectural thinking and delivering solutions through code.
- Experience with Rails and Ruby, including developer tooling for large engineering teams.
- Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners.
- Active working knowledge and architecture experience with Ruby.
- Experience with asynchronous processing using Sidekiq and/or Kafka.
- Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements.
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