What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Engineer position 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.
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.
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 :
If you have experience or interest in any of the following areas, we want to talk to you :
Compensation : 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).
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.
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Salary : $225,000 - $265,000
