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Software Engineer, Build Stability

Gusto

$150,000 - $205,000
Oct 17, 2025
Denver, CO, US • San Francisco, CA, US • New York, NY, US • Los Angeles, CA, US • Seattle, WA, US
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Gusto is looking to improve the developer experience for hundreds of engineers by enhancing the performance, scalability, and reliability of their CI ecosystem, ultimately making development and deployment pipelines faster and more efficient to deliver value to customers more quickly.

Requirements

  • 6+ 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 developer tooling for large engineering teams.
  • Ability to work with colleagues as both customers and partners.
  • Proven track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and infrastructure enhancements.

Responsibilities

  • You will manage, maintain, and evolve our core CI system, primarily centered around BuildKite, ensuring it can handle our growing engineering organization's needs.
  • Dive deep into our build and test pipelines to identify bottlenecks. You'll implement solutions to drastically reduce build times and improve resource utilization.
  • Design, implement, and maintain critical developer workflow tools like merge queues to ensure our main branch is always stable and developers can integrate their code reliably and efficiently.
  • Own and enhance our systems for automatically detecting, quarantining, and reporting on flaky tests. Your work here will directly improve the reliability of our test suites and boost developer confidence in our CI system.
  • Build robust tools and services that enhance developer workflows, improve observability into our build system, and automate manual processes.
  • Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs, provide support, and champion best practices for building and testing their services effectively.
  • Proactively monitor the health of our CI platform, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement measures to prevent future failures, ensuring a stable foundation for all of Gusto's developers.

Other

  • 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).
  • When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
  • Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • 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.