Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team, you'll build automation and evolve the foundational systems that support Gusto's products.

Key opportunities include:

• Migrating production applications into a modern AWS multi-account architecture
• Strengthening disaster recovery and compliance
• Improving the speed and reliability of our infrastructure tooling

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu
• Improve Spacelift workflows used by engineering teams
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams to migrate production services
• Strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness
• Refactor infrastructure code into modular, reusable components
• Support engineering teams with cloud infrastructure needs
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development
• Participate in on-call rotation focused on internal engineering support

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering
• Deep, production-level AWS expertise
• Demonstrated mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu)
• Experience with multi-account AWS governance
• Hands-on experience with a managed IaC orchestration platform (Spacelift)
• Experience operating production infrastructure for a customer-facing SaaS platform
• Track record of driving multi-quarter infrastructure initiatives to completion

Nice to have:

• Operating Terraform/OpenTofu at large scale
• Experience in compliance-regulated environments
• Solid cloud networking foundations

We offer competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs). The cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at 163,000–204,000 in Denver, and 197,000–247,000 for San Francisco & New York. Stock equity is additional.