Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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The EasyLlama herd is fully remote, with employees distributed across the US. We are currently hiring in the following approved statesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$163K - $185K + Bonus
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Job Details

Experience
10+ years
Required Skills
AWSDockerSQLKubernetesRuby on RailsReactCI/CDRESTful APIsDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Expert-level Ruby on Rails experience building production SaaS applications.
  • Strong React experience and the ability to work across the full stack.
  • Extensive experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and modern developer tooling.
  • Experience owning production infrastructure with high availability and reliability requirements.
  • Experience designing and maintaining APIs and enterprise integrations.
  • Strong understanding of SQL, database design, caching, background processing, and notification systems.
  • Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct people management.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical roadmap for Platform Engineering.
  • Architect, build, and operate highly scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
  • Design and operate our Kubernetes infrastructure, cloud architecture, and deployment pipelines.
  • Improve developer productivity through CI/CD, automation, internal tooling, and engineering best practices.
  • Build and evolve the platform powering our AI products, including LLM orchestration and agent infrastructure.
  • Own our billing platform, including subscriptions, invoicing, and Stripe integrations.
  • Design and maintain secure, scalable integrations with HRIS and identity providers using REST APIs, OAuth, and SAML.
  • Build best-in-class observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers through technical leadership and design reviews.
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