Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Gusto · Denver, CO - Hybrid; New York, NY - Hybrid; San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
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**Staff Software Engineer — Cloud Infrastructure** **About Gusto** At Gusto, we’re on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy. AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. **About the Role** 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 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. **About the Team** The Infrastructure group makes our systems resilient by providing transparent, efficient, sustainable infrastructure—enabling engineers to own their products through technical guidance and tooling, and learning from failure without blame. Cloud Infrastructure is part of a multi-year effort to replace organically grown infrastructure with a governed, automated, self-service cloud platform. **Day-to-Day Responsibilities** - Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, with changes managed through code rather than manual configuration. - Improve the speed, reliability, and usability of Spacelift workflows used by engineering teams across Gusto. - Partner with application and infrastructure teams to migrate production services into a modern AWS multi-account architecture. - Strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness by implementing and testing infrastructure resilience. - Refactor infrastructure code into modular, reusable components that simplify maintenance and future development. - Support engineering teams with cloud infrastructure needs, troubleshooting, and vendor integrations. - Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development, improve troubleshooting, and identify automation opportunities—while maintaining a high bar for security, correctness, and reliability. - Participate in an on-call rotation focused on internal engineering support, turning recurring issues into automation and lasting improvements. **What We’re Looking For** - 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering. - Deep, production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security primitives. - Mastery of Infrastructure as Code *(Terraform/OpenTofu strongly preferred; Crossplane, CloudFormation, or similar)* including module design, state management, and scalable patterns for large teams. - E
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