# Staff Software Engineer, Observability

**Company**: Gusto
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$270,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### 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.

### Job Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Observability to join our Engineering team. As a key member of our Reliability Engineering team, you will enable our product teams to build impactful products by building secure, resilient, and accessible systems.

### Responsibilities

- Shape the engineering organisation standards around observability.

- Own and evolve the observability platform, including distributed logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure.

- Build AI-native capabilities to automatically detect anomalies, diagnose failures, and accelerate root cause analysis.

- Create powerful developer experiences through dashboards, notebooks, and interactive debugging tools.

- Drive reliability automation with intelligent alerting, diagnostics, and incident response systems.

- Partner across engineering teams to embed observability and reliability best practices.

- Mentor engineers and influence reliability culture across the organisation.

### Requirements

- 8+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale observability or monitoring infrastructure.

- Experience implementing or operating observability platforms such as Datadog, Sentry, Splunk, or similar.

- Strong SWE coding proficiency in at least one of Ruby, Python, or TypeScript.

### Preferred Experience

- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred).

- Infrastructure-as-Code, such as Terraform or Crossplane.

- Container orchestration, such as Kubernetes.

- Linux systems knowledge and shell proficiency.

- Experience designing highly available and scalable systems.

- Experience acting as an internal consultant or trusted advisor.

### Salary

Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $200,000-$230,000 /yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $230,000-$270,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.

## Skills

### Required
- observability
- monitoring infrastructure
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Splunk
- Ruby
- Python
- TypeScript

### Nice to have
- cloud infrastructure
- AWS
- Terraform
- Crossplane
- Kubernetes
- Linux systems
- shell proficiency

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