Senior Software Engineer | Infrastructure New York, San Francisco, Remote (US or Canada)

Ramp; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented engineer to join their innovative team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence and implement cutting-edge database and container orchestration infrastructure. You'll work with a dynamic group of engineers, tackling complex scaling and performance challenges while mentoring others. This is a chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company that values ownership and innovation. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to contribute to a mission-driven organization, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

Fertility HRA up to $5,000

WFH stipend

Wellness stipend

Parental Leave

Relocation support

Pet insurance

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in high-quality architectures for critical systems.
• Production experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Influence and implement Ramp's next generation of database and infrastructure.
• Work with cloud-native technologies to scale best practices.
• Solve critical production events as part of an On Call rotation.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code

Object-oriented programming

Problem-solving

Database administration

Real-time queue systems

Container orchestration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Celery

Amazon Aurora

Elasticache Redis

Cloudflare

Job description

About Ramp

Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.

About the Role

Ramp is, at its core, an engineering company, and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world! They are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges. Our ideal candidate has a strong sense of ownership and enjoys owning projects from inception to scaling it in production. We value people who take pride in their work, and show an aptitude for learning quickly whether they’re familiar with our stack or not. As an early employee, you’ll be working with a nimble team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, long-term impact on technical design and engineering culture.

Our ideal candidate possesses a deep knowledge of AWS, or an equivalent cloud provider and will assist in constructing the upcoming versions of our database infrastructure. They have been accountable for deploying production databases and have experience handling scale, concurrency, fault tolerance, and idempotency. They exhibit a strong sense of ownership, promptly addressing high-urgency issues, and they also mentor and foster the growth of every other team member.

What You’ll Do

• Influence and implement the next generation of Ramp's database, real-time queue, or container orchestration infrastructure
• Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Cloudflare, Amazon ALB, Service Discovery, ECS/EKS, Celery, Kafka, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
• Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
• Find solutions to Ramp's toughest scaling, performance, and low latency problems
• Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events

What You Need

• Minimum 4 years of experience shipping high-quality architectures for critical systems preferred
• Production experience in AWS, GCP, or Azure
• An ability to think through customer requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly solve their problems
• Expertise in a production deployment of Infrastructure-as-Code i.e. Terraform
• Proficiency in an object-oriented programming language
• Deep experience in one of the following:
• Large-scale SQL database administration (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Real-time queue systems (e.g. Kafka, Celery, SQS, Temporal)
• Container Orchestration/Web Server Administration (ECS/Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Gunicorn, Flask)

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • One Medical annual membership
• 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
• Flexible PTO
• Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
• WFH stipend to support your home office needs
• Wellness stipend
• Parental Leave
• Relocation support to NYC or SF
• Pet insurance

Other notices

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