Staff Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructurePosted today$197K–$247K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, with changes: managed through code rather than manual configuration.

  • Improve the speed, reliability, and usability of Spacelift workflows used by engineering teams across Gusto.

  • Partner with application and infrastructure teams to migrate production: services into a modern AWS multi-account architecture.

  • Strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness by implementing and testing infrastructure resilience.

  • Refactor infrastructure code into modular, reusable components that simplify: maintenance and future development.

  • Support engineering teams with cloud infrastructure needs, troubleshooting, and vendor integrations.

What they're looking for

  • Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development, improve: troubleshooting, and identify automation opportunities while maintaining a high bar for security, correctness, and reliability.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation focused on internal engineering support,: turning recurring issues into automation and lasting improvements.
  • + years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
  • Deep, production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security primitives.