Lead Software Engineer: CI/CD, Rails APIs & Ownership

Morgan Stanley; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Benefits

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and CI/CD as a second language. The role emphasizes owning technology end-to-end, debugging complex systems, and delivering reliable Rails and Ansible pipelines that keep deployments green for local teams.

This position offers a competitive compensation range, mentorship, and the opportunity to shape infrastructure while living in California.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a technology setting.
• Proficiency with Ansible and Ruby on Rails; solid CI/CD understanding.
• Ability to debug complex, multi-service systems across teams.

Responsibilities

• Trace a deeply technical bug across multiple Ansible services across the stack.
• Maintain backward compatibility of Ansible schemas to avoid breaking upgrades.
• Keep the Rails build pipeline green for timely deployments by Carlsbad teams.
• Design Rails APIs used by Carlsbad, CA teams for future use.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across CA engineering teams.
• Automate manual CI/CD chores to reduce engineering hours.
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for production environments.

Skills

7+ years experience

Debugging under pressure

Ambiguity handling

Initiative

Tools

Ansible

Ruby on Rails

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Morgan Stanley in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Lead Software Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and CI/CD as a second language. The role emphasizes owning technology end-to-end, debugging complex systems, and delivering reliable Rails and Ansible pipelines that keep deployments green for local teams.

This position offers a competitive compensation range, mentorship, and the opportunity to shape infrastructure while living in California.