Software Engineer, Build Stability

About Gusto

At Gusto, we’re on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we’re proud to support more than 400,000 small businesses across the country, and we’re building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers we serve. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity – Build Stability, you will be instrumental in shaping the developer experience for hundreds of engineers at Gusto. You will be part of the team that owns the broader CI ecosystem, focused on improving its performance, scalability, and reliability. Your work will directly impact how quickly we can deliver value to our customers by making our development and deployment pipelines faster and more efficient. This is a high-impact role for an engineer who is passionate about developer tooling and infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with engineers across various teams to understand their needs and provide effective solutions, with a forward-thinking approach towards incorporating intelligent solutions.

About the Team

The Build Stability team, part of the Developer Productivity organization, is at the heart of this mission, owning the Continuous Integration (CI) system that powers our development lifecycle. We are responsible for empowering our software engineers through consistent, reliable, and delightful build systems that maximizes engineering velocity and minimizes friction to shipping.

Key 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software development experience.